[colug-432] RHEL Satellite v5 api user privileges

[Matthew Hyclak]

Satellite 6 is a REST API.

https://satellite/api/v2/hosts?per_page=1000 will return you a
json-formatted list of the first 1000 of your hosts. Obviously adjust the
per_page to meet your needs - the default is 20.

You can probably do it with one curl call :-)

Matt

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Sep 3, 2015, at 12:36, Scott McCarty <scott.mccarty at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You are not missing anything. I have seen this before with other
> automation I have done. Pretty much anything useful needs a power user. The
> API is old and just not that soohisticated from an RBAC perspective (Sat6
> is much more sophisticated).
> >
> > Long story short, I have historically kept scripts as root only,
> directly on the Satellite box..
>
> Thanks, that helps.  We'll be moving to Satellite 6 at some point here,
> but we're not there yet.  Hopefully the access controls are better, but
> (that aside) the API stays this easy to use.
>
> Seriously - it's basically two lines in perl or ruby - call auth.login to
> get a session key, and call system.getId to get a list of hosts.  It can't
> get much easier.  Despite the scary sounding name XMLRPC, the rest of the
> API looks basically just as easy.
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