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Bug 2118486

Summary:	The force option of registering through dbus python binding is ignored
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Michal Bocek <mbocek>
Component:	subscription-manager	Assignee:	Jason Jerome <jajerome>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat subscription-manager QE Team <rhsm-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.6	CC:	arpandey, cdonnell, redakkan, tkuratom, zpetrace
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	8.8	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	subscription-manager-1.28.34-1.el8	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Clones:	2121350 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2023-05-16 09:07:12 UTC	Type:	Bug
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	2121350

Description Michal Bocek 2022-08-15 22:18:12 UTC

Description of problem:
The dbus object com.redhat.RHSM1 documented at https://www.candlepinproject.org/docs/subscription-manager/dbus_objects.html#methods-6 mentions that we can set the force option when registering the system that should be the equivalent of the --force cli option.

This option is not respected when passing the force option through the RHSM dbus python binding.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a RHEL 8 system registered to RHSM
2. Run this piece of python code
```
import dbus

REGISTER_OPTS_DICT = dbus.Dictionary({"force": True}, signature="ss")

system_bus = dbus.SystemBus()
register_server = system_bus.get_object("com.redhat.RHSM1", "/com/redhat/RHSM1/RegisterServer")
address = register_server.Start("C", dbus_interface="com.redhat.RHSM1.RegisterServer")
private_bus = dbus.connection.Connection(address)
register_object = private_bus.get_object("com.redhat.RHSM1", "/com/redhat/RHSM1/Register")
connection_opts = {"host": "subscription.rhsm.redhat.com"}
connection_opts = dbus.Dictionary(connection_opts, signature="ss")
register_object.Register(
    "",
    "username",
    "password",
    REGISTER_OPTS_DICT,
    connection_opts,
    "C",
    dbus_interface="com.redhat.RHSM1.Register",
)
```

Actual results:
You're greeted with the following exception:

com.redhat.RHSM1.Error: {"exception": "DBusException", "message": "This system is already registered", "severity": "error"}

Expected results:
The system is re-registered without an exception.

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2022-08-16 13:00:23 UTC

Yes, it appears it is not actually implemented, only checked as part of the parameters in case a system is registered.

Comment 2 Archana Pandey 2022-11-30 10:19:58 UTC

Pre-verification against jenkins build of subscription-manager( subscription-manager-1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50.x86_64 )

>> Lets reproduce the issue first-

[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: Red Hat Subscription Management
subscription management server: 4.2.10-1
subscription management rules: 5.43
subscription-manager: 1.28.33-1.el8
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 


[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# subscription-manager status
+-------------------------------------------+
   System Status Details
+-------------------------------------------+
Overall Status: Disabled
Content Access Mode is set to Simple Content Access. This host has access to content, regardless of subscription status.

System Purpose Status: Disabled

[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# subscription-manager identity 
system identity: 854a3c2f-b568-4fa1-a173-f1da3e7b6582
name: sweetpig-12.4a2m.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com
org name: 13343512
org ID: 13343512
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]#  
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# python3 test.py                     << script to use dbus python binding for rhsm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 19, in <module>
    dbus_interface="com.redhat.RHSM1.Register",
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: com.redhat.RHSM1.Error: {"exception": "DBusException", "severity": "error", "message": "This system is already registered"}
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]#    ^^^^^------ Issue reproduced, forced re-registration failed
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 

=========================================================================

>> verifying on jenkins build of sub-man that has a fix:

[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# yum upgrade subscription-manager
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 3:49:40 ago on Wed 30 Nov 2022 01:16:13 AM EST.
Dependencies resolved.
==============================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                  Architecture                  Version                                                     Repository                           Size
==============================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 dnf-plugin-subscription-manager                          x86_64                        1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50                        rhsm_RHEL8.8                        315 k
 python3-cloud-what                                       x86_64                        1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50                        rhsm_RHEL8.8                        314 k
 python3-subscription-manager-rhsm                        x86_64                        1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50                        rhsm_RHEL8.8                        392 k
 python3-syspurpose                                       x86_64                        1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50                        rhsm_RHEL8.8                        331 k
 subscription-manager                                     x86_64                        1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50                        rhsm_RHEL8.8                        1.2 M

Transaction Summary
=========================================================================:
:
:
:
Installed products updated.

Upgraded:
  dnf-plugin-subscription-manager-1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50.x86_64                           python3-cloud-what-1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50.x86_64                        
  python3-subscription-manager-rhsm-1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50.x86_64                         python3-syspurpose-1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50.x86_64                        
  subscription-manager-1.28.33+4.gca9258769-1.git.0.244bf50.x86_64                                     

Complete!
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# service rhsm restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart rhsm.service
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# subscription-manager identity
system identity: aa942526-4fec-42aa-9516-159cb2dede17
name: sweetpig-12.4a2m.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com
org name: 13343512
org ID: 13343512
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# python3 test.py 
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]#                 ^^----  script ran successfully and system re-registered with force option.      
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# subscription-manager status
+-------------------------------------------+
   System Status Details
+-------------------------------------------+
Overall Status: Disabled
Content Access Mode is set to Simple Content Access. This host has access to content, regardless of subscription status.

System Purpose Status: Disabled

[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# subscription-manager identity
system identity: cd0a578f-ac67-4a48-8323-2ec8678f574b                               system identity after re-registration with force option
name: sweetpig-12.4a2m.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com
org name: 13343512
org ID: 13343512
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]# 
[root@sweetpig-12 ~]#

Verified :  The system is re-registered without an exception when using --force option .

Comment 5 Zdenek Petracek 2022-12-06 14:39:32 UTC

Final verification done on the SM version:
[root@kvm-02-guest12 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: This system is currently not registered.
subscription management server: 4.2.10-1
subscription management rules: 5.43
subscription-manager: 1.28.34-1.el8

[root@kvm-02-guest12 ~]# subscription-manager status
+-------------------------------------------+
   System Status Details
+-------------------------------------------+
Overall Status: Disabled
Content Access Mode is set to Simple Content Access. This host has access to content, regardless of subscription status.

System Purpose Status: Disabled

[root@kvm-02-guest12 ~]# subscription-manager identity
system identity: 16aa5474-5817-4c91-8712-7aeab6d48953
name: kvm-02-guest12.rhts.eng.brq.redhat.com
org name: 13281785
org ID: 13281785


-> Running a script to use dbus python binding for rhsm:
[root@kvm-02-guest12 ~]# python3 script.py
[root@kvm-02-guest12 ~]#
[root@kvm-02-guest12 ~]# subscription-manager status
+-------------------------------------------+
   System Status Details
+-------------------------------------------+
Overall Status: Disabled
Content Access Mode is set to Simple Content Access. This host has access to content, regardless of subscription status.

System Purpose Status: Disabled

[root@kvm-02-guest12 ~]# subscription-manager identity
system identity: 322af5ac-28f3-48d3-b5a7-24e6309ac686
name: kvm-02-guest12.rhts.eng.brq.redhat.com
org name: 13281785
org ID: 13281785


^^ system re-registered successfully --> Final verification PASSED

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 09:07:12 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (subscription-manager bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:2984