Description of problem:
While troubleshooting customer issue, found the following error in logs which seems to indicate communication errors between taskomatic and cobbler, especially the "kickstart-getData' login failure.  It should be using taskomatic user not this default/static string.

This could also be causing customer Satellite to sometimes result in partial deletion of profiles or general problems with taskomatic/cobbler sync'ing.

from cobblerd.log -
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2010-04-16 14:53:00,155 - api - login attempt; user(kickstart-getData)
2010-04-16 14:53:00,304 - api - authenticate; ['kickstart-getData', False]
2010-04-16 14:53:00,304 - api - login failed; user(kickstart-getData)
2010-04-16 14:53:00,304 - api - Exception occured: cobbler.cexceptions.CX
2010-04-16 14:53:00,304 - api - Exception value: 'login failed: kickstart-getData'
2010-04-16 14:53:00,305 - api - Exception Info:
 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1567, in _dispatch
   return method_handle(*params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1033, in login
   raise CX(_("login failed: %s") % login_user)
...

rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log -
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INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 | 2010-04-16 16:05:00,023 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-3] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.CobblerSyncTask - RuntimeExceptioneError trying to sync to cobbler: XmlRpcException calling cobbler.
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 | java.lang.RuntimeException: XmlRpcException calling cobbler.
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.CobblerXMLRPCHelper.invokeMethod(CobblerXMLRPCHelper.java:72)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.CobblerSyncTask.execute(CobblerSyncTask.java:76)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.SingleThreadedTestableTask.execute(SingleThreadedTestableTask.java:54)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:203)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 | Caused by:
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 | redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: The response could not be parsed.
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.handleResponse(XmlRpcClient.java:434)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.endCall(XmlRpcClient.java:376)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.invoke(XmlRpcClient.java:165)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.CobblerXMLRPCHelper.invokeMethod(CobblerXMLRPCHelper.java:69)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       ... 4 more
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 | Caused by:
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 | java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://suwsmnsat01.hosting.ops:80/cobbler_api
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1308)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.handleResponse(XmlRpcClient.java:420)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 |       ... 7 more
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/04/16 16:05:00 | 2010-04-16 16:05:00,023 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-3] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.CobblerSyncTask - Not re-throwing any more errors.
...

catalina.out -
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2010-04-16 00:01:00,187 [TP-Processor8] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.LoggingInvocationProcessor - REQUESTED FROM: *callerIp* CALL: auth.checkAuthToken(kickstart-getData, 5fea6323c3085be265cb470160069791xe5083d6b8b92ae9f68bdd7c73fcd5c7b) CALLER: (satadmin) TIME: 0.0 seconds
2010-04-16 00:01:00,261 [TP-Processor8] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.BaseHandler - Error calling method:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
...
Caused by:
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.UserLoginException: Either the password or username is incorrect.
       at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.auth.AuthHandler.login(AuthHandler.java:104)
       at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.auth.AuthHandler.login(AuthHandler.java:75)
       ... 40 more
...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.3.0

How reproducible:
Have not seen it on all Satellites, but it's consistently happening for this customer's, and Justin said he ran into this too.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have 5.3.0 Satellite with cobbler running.
2. Create/modify some kickstart profiles and look at logs.

Actual results:
See above.

Expected results:
No errors.

Additional info:
Per Justin - this is already fixed in spacewalk with commit 6e4faf231fd4ca1d0159e5988a00cb2d60338e2f (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/changeset?new=java%2Fcode%406e4faf231fd4ca1d0159e5988a00cb2d60338e2f&old=java%2Fcode%40607afc48fb7656bf8fe82e4139d8a7d25182fdbd) 

Open BZ to port to Satellite.