Re: rhn_register questions

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 17:20, Patrick Devine wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Berninger wrote:
> 
> > We're using the server because it generates the systemid based on the
> > secret string in the server's configuration file.  Each time the client
> > connects, the sysid is checked against the secret string and other
> > information to make sure that it's authorized to be an anonymous client
> > - much as that seems like it shouldn't make sense.
> 
> Right .. I'm just thinking that it would be really easy to make a python 
> script which just called registerSystem() in rhnreg.py without the hassle 
> of having to run rhn_register.  I'll see if I can cook something up.

It would (it is - I've modified the rhnreg_ks script here to have an
--anon option) I'm just trying to keep the client side as "pristine" as
possible.

rhnreg_ks --username=x --password=x --email=x --nohardware --nopackages

is a simple, fast way to do it.

> 
> --Patrick.
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