Feature #4925
closed
Centralize provider creation. Create 1 anonymous provider per org
Added by Partha Aji about 10 years ago.
Updated almost 6 years ago.
Description
Katello now creates 1 redhat provider and 1 anonymous provider per organization to store the redhat and custom products. This change implies that code creating custom providers from the API/CLI should be removed to avoid the confusion for a user. There by the following changes are proprosed
- Remove providers controller for v1, v2 APIs. Details now required with respect to list of products can be obtained in the products controller in any case.
- Remove the hammer provider subcommand, because that logic is already in subscriptions and providers/
- Subject changed from Clean up provider cruft to Centralize provider creation. Create 1 anonymous provider per org
The previous products scheme created an anonymous provider per custom product. So if the org had 10 custom products there could be possibly 10 providers of type "anonymous". These anonymous providers don't serve any purpose, and end up causing issues with permissions. For example we have logic in Katello that allows creation of products with no permission checks, because anonymous providers cant be tagged.
By centralizing anonymous providers we can atleast ensure that the customer has "Manage Redhat Products" permission to allow you to create products. Note this permission will be tweaked further in the future but atleast there needs to be a baseline.
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset katello|commit:1ae5f6c5c906764e73dd69f9b0f0957edfccd1c7.
- translation missing: en.field_release set to 13
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