Description of problem: rhnreg_ks registration works with an old password. If password is reset and old password is used with registration command it succeeds. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.9 How reproducible: 100% of retries. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use rhnreg_ks to register a server with the Spacewalk server using --password 2.rhnreg_ks --username=admin --password=<prvious_password> --serverUrl=http://spacewalk/XMLRPC --activationkey="hi_hello" --force 3. Actual results: Server is registered to Spacewalk with old password. Expected results: Rejection of registration process due to invalid password. Additional info:
As long as you use activation key to register your clients, any user / password information passed in to rhnreg_ks is no longer relevant and your system will be registered based on the activation key used. Without the activation key, the old password will not be accepted, just as you would expect. Closing with not a bug.
This BZ closed some time during 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7. Adding to 2.7 tracking bug.