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Bug 1209364

Summary: When attaching/subscribing without option, no error message prompts, but auto-attach happens.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: qianzhan
Component: subscription-managerAssignee: candlepin-bugs
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: John Sefler <jsefler>
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Version: 6.7CC: dgoodwin
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Description qianzhan 2015-04-07 08:08:00 UTC
Description of problem:
When attaching/subscribing without option, no error message prompts, but auto-attach happens.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
subscription-manager: 1.14.1-1.el6
python-rhsm: 1.14.1-1.el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Register to SAM1.4.1.
2. Run attach/subscribe command without options.
[root@dhcp-128-51 ~]# subscription-manager attach


Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Status:       Subscribed

[root@dhcp-128-51 ~]# subscription-manager attach

All installed products are covered by valid entitlements. No need to update subscriptions at this time.

Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Status:       Subscribed

[root@dhcp-128-51 ~]# subscription-manager remove --all
1 subscription removed at the server.
1 local certificate has been deleted.
[root@dhcp-128-51 ~]# subscription-manager subscribe


Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Status:       Subscribed

[root@dhcp-128-51 ~]# subscription-manager subscribe

All installed products are covered by valid entitlements. No need to update subscriptions at this time.

Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Status:       Subscribed



Actual results:
As step 2.

Expected results:
When attaching/subscribing without options, the following error message should prompt:
#subscription-manager subscribe
"Error: This command requires that you specify a pool with --pool or use --auto."

Additional info:

Comment 2 John Sefler 2015-04-07 14:09:04 UTC
Development made this recent change on purpose....  If you do not provide any options to the subscribe/attach module, the default behavior will be to auto-attach subscriptions.

commit cb590a75f3a2de921961808d00ab251180c51691 Make 'attach' auto unless otherwise specified

[root@jsefler-os6 ~]# subscription-manager subscribe --help | egrep -A1 -- "^ +--auto"
  --auto                Automatically attach compatible subscriptions to this
                        system. This is the default action.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I suggest moving to CLOSED NOTABUG.