Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed

Assigning Users for the RHN Website 81The following views are available from the vertical menu when Your RHN is the viewselected from the horizontal menu:. Your RHN: The most crucial information about the systems registered with RHNsuch as the systems with the most software updates available and the most relevantsecurity errata issued.. Your Account: Form to change the personal information associated with theaccount such as the password and email address.. Your Preferences: Options for the user to elect whether or not to receive email notificationsand customize how data is displayed.. Locale Preferences: Options to select time zone and language preference.3. Subscription Management: Interface for renewing, purchasing, and managing RedHat Enterprise Linux subscriptions as well as applying RHN entitlements to registeredsystems if necessary.Assigning Users for the RHN WebsiteMost organizations have more than one administrator with each administrator beingresponsible for specific systems. RHN also allows more than one user to view and manageeach system. Each user is assigned one or more roles. Some roles might not be available,depending on which RHN modules you have subscribed to. More than one user can existfor each role. The possible user roles are as follows:. User: Also referred to as a System Group User. Default user role with access to anyglobal channels to which anyone can subscribe. Can be given access to systemgroups and software channels.. Activation Key Administrator: Allowed to create, modify, and delete activationkeys for the organization.. Configuration Administrator: Allowed to manage system configurations for theorganization using the RHN website or the Red Hat Network ConfigurationManager. Must be subscribed to the Provisioning Module for this user role to exist.. Monitoring Administrator: Only available for the RHN Satellite Server Monitoringmodule. Allowed to schedule probes and manage the monitoring functionality.. Organization Administrator: Highest level of user roles. Can perform any actionfrom the other user roles. A login with this user role should be used to registersystems so the OrgAdmin can create additional users for the organization.Only Organization Administrators (OrgAdmins) see the Users link in the horizontalmenu, and only OrgAdmins can add or disable users. Click Users in the horizontal menuto view a list of active users.