Starting The Red Hat Network Registration Client - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.2 Reference Manual

If you require a proxy username and password, set enableProxyAuth to Yes to enable username/
password authentication for the proxy, and set proxyUser and proxyPassword to the appropriate
username and password for the proxy.
To bypass SSL, change the protocol for serverURL from https to http in the /etc/sysconfig/
rhn/rhn_register file.

5.2. Starting the Red Hat Network Registration Client

You must be root to register a system with RHN. If started by a standard users, the Red Hat Network
Registration Client prompts you to enter the root password before proceeding.
Important
If your username is part of a larger organizational account, be cautious when
registering your systems. By default, all systems registered with the Red Hat Network
Registration Client end up in the Ungrouped section of systems visible only to
Satellite Administrators. To ensure that you retain management of these systems, Red
Hat recommends that your organization create an activation key associated with a
specific system group and grant you permissions to that group. You may then register
your systems using that activation key and find those System Profiles within RHN
immediately. Refer to
To start the Red Hat Network Registration Client, use one of the following methods:
1. On the GNOME desktop, go to Applications (the main menu on the panel) => Programs =>
System => Red Hat Network
2. On the KDE desktop, go to Applications (the main menu on the panel) => System => Red Hat
Network
3. Type the command rhn_register at a shell prompt (for example an XTerm or GNOME terminal)
4. If you are not running the X Window System, type the command rhn_register at a shell prompt.
Section 5.7, "Text Mode RHN Registration Client"
Refer to
Caution
You must use Python 1.5.2-24 or later with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support. If not,
the information transferred is not encrypted. If you have an earlier version of Python,
you will see the message shown in
determine the version of Python on your system, use the command rpm -q python.
It is strongly recommended that you use Python 1.5.2-24 or later.
Starting the Red Hat Network Registration Client
Section 2.5, "Registering with Activation Keys"
Figure 5.2, "Use Python 1.5.2-24 or
for instructions.
for further details.
later". To
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