Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1 - RELEASE NOTES Release Note page 10

Chapter 2. Major Corrections
parentheses ("()"), box brackets ("[]"), braces ("{}"), and angle brackets ("<>").
• User names with accented characters now display properly once they are saved.
• A bug was fixed that prevented dollar signs ($) from being used in SSL certificate passwords.
• An issue was fixed where filtering by username on the Users page resulted in an Internal
Server Error message when the administrator's Interface Language was set to a language
other than English.
• A bug was fixed where the Details page for packages whose names contain a special
character, such as a plus sign (`+`), would display a
• RHN Satellite Server features a new service called
the standard service that was used to start Satellite. If a Satellite administrator
httpd
attempts to start the
httpd
displayed on the terminal:
Warning: satellite-httpd is installed on this system.
Are you sure you want to run httpd and not satellite-httpd?
• Red Hat Network Satellite 5.1.0 now supports the 'org/<random hash>' URL type in kickstart
profiles as part of the new Organizations feature. For example:
https://sat.example.com/kickstart/ks/org/1x8ac1dbff1d17c09434225433ab8/view_label/rhel-i386-a
• A filter text box has been added to the System Groups page to display groups matching a
certain string.
• Users, Systems, and System Group filter strings can now be cleared to display the complete
list.
•
server.satellite.tiny_url_timeout
allows a user to configure the amount of time (in hours) a kickstart file is valid before it times
out. The default value is
• The use of shell metacharacters (such as `?`, `\`, and `&`) in Data Source Name (DSN)
passwords are now supported.
• An issue was fixed where the nocpulse user was not created if a user with the UID 502
already existed.
• Users have the option to remove RHN Proxy Server packages during Proxy deactivation.
Once the packages are removed, you can then install any version of RHN Proxy without the
need to provision the OS.
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service on the Satellite system, the following warning will be
is a new option in the
.
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error.
no package
. This service replaces
satellite-httpd
/etc/rhn/rhn.conf
file that