Bug 891625

Summary:	Firstboot:check "I will enable activation key" box ,enter the hosted url,takes you to register using activation key screen
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Shwetha Kallesh <skallesh>
Component:	subscription-manager	Assignee:	candlepin-bugs
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	IDM QE LIST <seceng-idm-qe-list>
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Version:	6.4	CC:	awood, jmolet, jsefler
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Description Shwetha Kallesh 2013-01-03 13:04:22 UTC

Description of problem:
Firstboot:check "I will enable activation key" box ,enter the hosted url,takes you to next register using activation key screen

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@rhel6 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: This system is currently not registered.
subscription management server: Unknown
subscription-manager: 1.8.0-1.git.97.83ecf19.el6
python-rhsm: 1.8.0-1.git.9.e5f5887.el6


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Firstboot -r
2.Check "I will enable activation key" box
3.enter the hosted url
4.click next
  
Actual results:
 takes you to register using activation key screen

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 2 John Sefler 2013-01-03 14:41:37 UTC

Here's what I believe is happening (applies to both firstboot and gui)...

1. before starting firstboot or subscription-manager-gui, the hostname within rhsm.conf is altered such that it does not match regex subscription\.rhn\.(\w*\.)*redhat\.com
2. firstboot or subscription-manager-gui is started and the "I will use an Activation Key" checkbox is enabled (because the hostname does not match the regex) and the user checks the box.
3. then the "I will register with:" hostname is changed to match the hosted regex subscription\.rhn\.(\w*\.)*redhat\.com which immediately disables the "I will use an Activation Key" checkbox.
4. despite the now disabled checkbox, it is already checked and the workflow continues to the activation key panel.


Request: To catch this situation, maybe an error dialog can be presented stating that the hosted sever does not honor activation keys.
  OR
Because the user does not have a valid activation key for hosted, they will have to go back and undo their steps in reverse order to re-enable the box and uncheck it.


Question: why is it necessary to disable the "I will use an Activation Key" checkbox at all?  Since the user will likely not have a valid activation key for a redhat hosted server, they will not have one to enter and have to navigate back (or they will enter a wrong key value and face the invalid credentials dialog).

Comment 3 Alex Wood 2013-01-03 16:08:09 UTC

If you look in the wireframe link provided in the initial report of bug 817671, you'll see that Matt Reid requested that the activation key checkbox be disabled when users are using a hosted environment.  I think this makes sense since activation keys are not used in a hosted environment (as I understand it).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 891621 ***