Bug 736482

Summary: Katello returning inaccurate message via subscription-manager when user has incorrect credentials
Product: [Retired] Katello Reporter: Corey Welton <cwelton>
Component: Webservice APIAssignee: Ivan Necas <inecas>
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Description Corey Welton 2011-09-07 19:41:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
When a user tries to use subscription-manager against katello with incorrect credentials, rather than being informed of such, s/he is told that the server does not support environments.

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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install subscription-manager and assure prefix and port are correct, pointing to katello.
2. Assure you have an environment within ACME_Corporation called "Dev"
3. Attempt to register using incorrect u/p pair: 'subscription-manager register --username=dddadmin --password=admin --org=ACME_Corporation --environment=Dev --force'
4. Attempt to register using incorrect u/p pair: 'subscription-manager register --username=admin --password=admin --org=ACME_Corporation --environment=Dev --force'

  
Actual results:
For step 3: ERROR: Server does not support environments.
For step 4: Successful registration, as expected

Expected results:
For step 3: User should be told they have incorrect credentials, not that environments are not supported.

Additional info:

Compare results - first, attempting to register, using the --environment flag, against candlepin, which does not support the flag

[root@katello-test-rhel6-1 ~]# subscription-manager register --username=dddadmin --password=admin --org=ACME_Corporation --environment=Dev --force
ERROR: Server does not support environments.
[root@katello-test-rhel6-1 ~]# subscription-manager register --username=admin --password=admin --org=ACME_Corporation --environment=Dev --force
ERROR: Server does not support environments.

Second, attempting to register directly against candlepin, w/o --environment flag:
[root@katello-test-rhel6-1 ~]# subscription-manager register --username=dddadmin --password=admin --org=ACME_Corporation  --force
Invalid Credentials
[root@katello-test-rhel6-1 ~]# subscription-manager register --username=admin --password=admin --org=ACME_Corporation  --force
The system has been registered with id: 9febe477-226d-4730-b8dd-06b9aa6a27e5 


So here, we see that (a) candlepin always rejects any registration attempts with --environment flag and (b) correctly indicates that a user has invalid credentials.  Thus, it is only when registering directly through katello with invalid credentials that user is given the erroneous message.
Comment 1 Corey Welton 2011-09-07 19:43:35 UTC 
Step 4 above should read:

4. Attempt to register using correct u/p pair: 'subscription-manager register
--username=admin --password=admin --org=ACME_Corporation --environment=Dev
--force'
Comment 2 Ivan Necas 2011-09-14 14:41:22 UTC 
Filed a bug for subscription manager [1] since it seems there is problem on it's side: it checks available resources through katello api (to find out environments support), but does not check whether this request was authorized.

[1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738322