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Bug 50777

Summary:	registration is impossible using rhn_register and an existing account
Product:	Red Hat Satellite 5	Reporter:	Graham Leggett <minfrin>
Component:	Registration	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Description Graham Leggett 2001-08-03 01:03:09 UTC

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Description of problem:
According to the menu options inside rhn_register, if you have an existing
Redhat Network account, you are asked to enter the username and password
for it.

Instead of adding the system to the account as expected, the rhn_register
script comes back saying "user already exists".

This makes it impossible to use rhn_register on any machine other than when
the RHN account is first created, rendering the rhn_register script pretty
useless.


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run rhn_register
2. Get to Step 2: Register a User Account
3. Enter an existing username and password
4. Observe error "ERROR: This username is already taken"
	

Expected Results:  The rhn_register should have registered the system with
the existing account.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2001-09-18 12:21:07 UTC

The system will give this error if you provide an existing username, but a
different password from the one that we have on record.  What username are you
seeing this with?

Comment 2 Graham Leggett 2001-09-18 22:24:36 UTC

The username being used is "minfrin". The password being used is the same
password that works to get into the RHN website.

Comment 3 Jay Turner 2001-09-21 15:09:43 UTC

I have to admit that I'm at a loss here.  I cannot replicate this problem in our
lab no matter what I try.  The only thing that I can recommend is that you
verify that you are using the same password to log into https://rhn.redhat.com
as you are using under rhn_register.  In addition, run 'rhn_register --config
--nox' and confirm that serverURL is set to https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC