Description of problem: reactivation key can be used to register rhel5 systems to rhel4 channels. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-satellite-5.1.0-181-redhat-linux-as-i386-4-teng.iso How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. register 2 systems (rhel4 & rhel5)(system1 & system2) and give provisioning entitlements. 2 create reactivation keys for both the systems. 3. reactivate system1 (rhel4) with the reactivation key of system2 (rhel5). Actual results: reactivation key can be used to register rhel5 systems to rhel4 channels Expected results: Additional info:
on further investigation I noticed that the system profile name remains that of the rhel5 system of which the reactivation key was used. but the host name/ip address is of the rhel4 system which I registered using the reactivation key.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 428699 ***