Re: Scripting thn_register

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On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 10:53, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> With the standard rhnreg_ks,
> rhnreg_ks --username=x --password=x --email=x --nohardware --nopackages
> 
> should do the trick (it works here)
> 
> If you want to patch the client (which current hasn't done as of yet,
> officially)
> 
> you can try the accompanied patch (which also works here).
> The patch is against rhn_register-2.7.2, which is out of date, but it
> works fine, and it should be easy to forward patch.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 06:34, Michael Redinger wrote:
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> > Didn't try this, but it should work ...
> > 
> > - - set the server in the config files
> > - - man rhnreg_ks
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > On 29 Jul 2002, John Hearns wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone had much success with scripting rhn_register?
> > > 
> > > I would like to run rhn_register automatically as a post-install 
> > > step. We would liek to automate installs as much as possible,
> > > and running rhn_register is not feasible.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This won't work for me:
> > > rhn_register --nox --configure \ serverURL=https://server:8081/XMLRPC
> > > 
> > > I could use Expect to script it I suppose.
> > > 
> > > Another way of doing things is just to supply a
> > > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn_register and systemid  pre-configured as part of
> > > an RPM at install time.
> > > That sounds ok - but all systems will then have the same systemid.
> > > Maybe will cause problems in the future?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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--- rhnreg_ks.py	Fri Apr 12 15:59:45 2002
+++ /home/thm/rhnreg_ks	Wed May 29 16:54:55 2002
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
     print _("    --nopackages               - do not profile or upload any package info ")
     print _("    --force                    - register the system even if it is already registered")
     print _("    --version                  - display the version ")
+    print _("    --anon                     - do anonymous registration ")
     print ""
 
 
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@
                                        'nohardware',
                                        'serialnumber=',
                                        'contactinfo',
-                                       'email=',"force",])
+                                       'email=',"force",'anon',])
     except getopt.error, e:
         print _("Error parsing command list arguments: %s") % e
         printUseage()
@@ -177,6 +178,8 @@
             serialnumber = str(opt[1])
         if opt[0] == "--contactinfo":
             contactinfo = readContactInfo()
+	if opt[0] == "--anon":
+            anon_reg = 1
         if opt[0] == "--version":
             showVersion()
             sys.exit(-1)
@@ -186,6 +189,16 @@
         print _("This system is already registered. Use --force to override")
         sys.exit(-1)
 
+    if anon_reg:
+	username = "Anonymous"
+	password = "Anonymous"
+        if not profilename:
+            profilename = "Anonymous Profile"
+        systemId = rhnreg.registerSystem(username, password, profilename)
+        # write out the new id
+        rhnreg.writeSystemId(systemId)
+	return
+
     if not username or not password and not email:
         print _("A username,password,and email address are required to register a system.")
         sys.exit(-1)