RH Network gets crazy

Troy Engel tengel at sonic.net
Sat May 5 17:18:33 PDT 2001


Well, it looks like RedHat finally got around to enforcing their
'Network' account thingy, where only one machine is allowed to be on the
up2date network under your username for free.  I have 5 machines on one
username, and got the 'denied!' today.

Found out that if you goto your network page via the web, goto Your
Network, then Assign Services you can rearrange your machines to
designate who has the freebie (like i'm gonna pay $20/mo/machine for
their update service).  Easy enough to rearrange each machine in turn
and do a quick update, bypassing that shit.

Of course, you have other options like paying $20/per machine/per month,
using a seperate username/password for each machine (*ahem*), or
seriously consider using a different distro where they won't get crazy
on you (well, debian is already crazy, so caveat emptor)...

/me wonders which path to take...
-te

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