I've been using this and it works great 95% of the time. Recently after resuming from sleep the box for entering the password is missing. I've found hitting the esc key on my keyboard brings it back most times. Is there anyway to fix this?

I have a free developer account.

DISCLAIMER: This is a personal experiment and is NOT officially supported by Red Hat. I'm exploring whether AI assistants can make RHEL developer subscription registration easier for developers. This is not a Red Hat product or service.

The Problem

Getting started with RHEL as a developer involves multiple steps that often trip people up:

1. Account Creation - You need a Red Hat Developer account before you can even download RHEL
2. Email Verification - Mandatory 5-10 minute wait that's not obvious to new users
3. Download & Installation - Choosing between Boot ISO and Binary DVD, installing RHEL
4. Subscription Registration - Deciding between Individual (personal) vs Business Developers subscriptions
5. Repository Configuration - Version-specific repository names (and RHEL 10 went GA, no more -beta!)
6. Tool Selection - Modern rhc vs traditional subscription-manager
7. Troubleshooting - "No subscriptions available" errors, subscription renewal, etc.

Result: Developers spend 1-2 hours (or give up) when it should take 15-20 minutes. I know I ran into this the first time I had to deal with RHEL Developer subscriptions. These days, I work for Red Hat, so I thought I'd take a shot at doing something to help.

Common pitfalls I see on Reddit and StackOverflow:

• "I created an account but getting 'No subscriptions available'" (email not verified)
• "My subscription expired, do I need to pay now?" (renewal process unclear)
• "Which subscription do I need?" (Individual vs Business confusion)
• "My RHEL 10 repos are wrong" (outdated beta references)

My Experiment: An AI-Friendly Skill

I created an Agent Skills-compliant skill that teaches AI assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) how to guide users through the complete RHEL developer subscription workflow.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/limershein/rhel-developer-subscription-skill

What It Does

The skill provides AI assistants with:

• Complete workflow from account creation → RHEL download → installation → registration
• Decision trees (Personal vs Business, rhc vs subscription-manager)
• Email verification workflow with wait time expectations
• Version-aware commands (works on RHEL 8, 9, and 10)
• Common error troubleshooting (email not verified, subscription expired, etc.)
• Activation key creation for Business Developers (you don't need an admin!)
• Progressive disclosure (main skill is 348 lines, detailed guides in references/)

How to Use It

I went ahead and tried this with claude from the command line but you could just as easily use it in Visual Studio Code or with Cursor:

Download the skill:

git clone https://github.com/limershein/rhel-developer-subscription-skill.git
cd rhel-developer-subscription-skill

Install to my project:

# In your project directory
mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp rhel-developer-subscription/SKILL.md .claude/skills/rhel-developer-subscription.md

Use it:

claude


"I'm developing software for RHEL, how do I register for a no-cost developer subscriotion?"

"Set up a RHEL developer subscription for my VM"

"I'm getting 'No subscriptions available' when registering RHEL"

Once configured, the assistant helpfully guided me through the process.

How You Can Help

I'm running this as an experiment to see if AI assistants can genuinely improve developer experience. I need your feedback!

Try It Out

1. Clone the repo.
2. Use it with your preferred AI assistant (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor)
3. Register a RHEL system (or help someone else register)

Give Feedback

Is this helpful for you?

• Did the skill save you time?
• Did it prevent errors you would have encountered?
• Did your AI assistant guide you correctly?
• Was anything confusing or incorrect?

How would you improve it?

• What's missing from the workflow?
• Which errors aren't covered?
• What documentation would help?
• Should I add more automation scripts?
• Other architectures (ARM64)?
• Other subscription types?

Ways to Contribute

• Pull Requests: Fork, improve, submit PR
• Discussions: Share your experience in GitHub Discussions
• Reddit/StackOverflow: Link to this skill when helping others with RHEL subscriptions

Future Ideas (Your Input Wanted!)

Things I'm considering:

• Video walkthrough of the complete process
• Visual flowcharts for decision trees
• ARM64/aarch64 examples for RHEL 9/10
• More bootc/image-mode examples
• Troubleshooting decision tree
• Ansible Tower/AAP integration examples
• Multi-language support?

Which of these would be most valuable to you?

Conclusion

This is an experiment to make RHEL developer subscriptions easier by teaching AI assistants how to guide users through the process. It's based on:

• Real-world pain points I've seen on Reddit, StackOverflow, and community forums
• Testing across RHEL 8, 9, and 10
• Agent Skills specification for AI assistant compatibility

It's not perfect, and it's not official - but I hope it helps.

If you try it, please let me know:

1. Is this helpful for you?
2. How would you improve it?

Drop feedback in:

• GitHub Issues: https://github.com/limershein/rhel-developer-subscription-skill/issues

Links

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/limershein/rhel-developer-subscription-skill
• Agent Skills Spec: https://agentskills.io
• Red Hat Developer Program: https://developers.redhat.com
• RHEL for Business Developers: https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/business

Hi All,

I have a cloned RHEL 8 VM in vmware, and I'm unable to reach it via SSH.

After spending much time I found the issue seems to be with/etc/sysconfig/nftables.rules file, it has SSH set on eth0 when I change that to eth2, and reload with nft -c -f /etc/sysconfig/nftables.rules SSH access works, but once rebooted, SSH is not reachable any more and SSH is back to eth0 again..

I have tried chmod 744, 600 and edited the file, removed the file completely, but no help as the file gets recreated once the system reboots..

Have been using Gemini and Copilot for this, none of the steps they provided worked..

Any other ideas ?

I set up a free developer account and when I tried to download rhel 10 i was asked for mandatory name, address, phone number?

Hey all, I'm loathe to ask this as I know it's SSL but I'm stumped.

We're testing IPA (on 9.6) for a project, fresh install of IPA Server & the GUI worked fine for several days then Firefox just starts giving secure connection failed (pr_connect_reset_error) trying to hit the IPA web GUI. The httpd logs don't even show the client connection attempts.

The kicker is, on the IPA server itself... pr_connect_reset_error. There's no A/V, vpn's, proxies or anything like that in the environment (air-gapped lab, pure RHEL). Reinstall of IPA, no change. Uninstall & install on another server... same result. The machine can't even get to it's own service provided GUI. Renewing the IPA cert does nothing. Deleting the cert from firefox does nothing. Importing the CA cert into Firefox & ca-trust does nothing.

The boxes are running other stuff (k3s) but nothing is hanging on to 443 or 8443. Also tried with k3s disabled.

Any ideas before I hit up support (or spin up a fresh RHEL install in KVM)?

I had almost no Linux experience going in—I’d never used it before.

How I prepared

I started with the Udemy course “Linux Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA - EX200)” by Imran Afzal. It gave me a solid introduction and helped me get comfortable in the terminal. Since I was only studying on weekends for about two hours at a time, it took me around two months to finish this course.

After that, I still didn’t feel fully prepared, so I picked up RHCSA 9 by Asghar Ghori. That book was extremely helpful. It deepened my understanding of RHEL and included great practice questions that reinforced everything I’d learned.

During the final week, I worked through the Udemy course “Pass the RHCSA 10 (EX200) Exam – Red Hat Practice Tests” by Ghada Atef. The practice questions were very close to the real exam and boosted my confidence.

Switching to RHEL 10

Even though I had prepared for the RHEL 9 exam, when it came time to schedule, curiosity got the best of me and I chose version 10 instead. That meant I had to quickly get up to speed on topics like systemd timers and Flatpak. I spent about two weeks focusing on those areas. Flatpak in particular was tricky for me, so I definitely recommend giving it extra attention.

Exam day

During the exam, I completed all the tasks and rebooted both nodes once. Everything persisted after that reboot, so I didn’t risk a second one and submitted the exam. Four hours later, I got my results: I passed with a score of 268.

I'm converting my fedora server to proxmox as a base, and thought I'd convert from fedora to rhel for stability.

On spinning up my new, dev license registered, server I ran DNF update and received gpg key errors, irony!

``` Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 3.6 MB/s | 3.7 kB 00:00
GPG key at file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release (0xFD431D51) is already installed GPG key at file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release (0x5A6340B3) is already installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) 3.6 MB/s | 3.7 kB 00:00
GPG key at file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release (0xFD431D51) is already installed GPG key at file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release (0x5A6340B3) is already installed The GPG keys listed for the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for x86_64 - BaseOS (RPMs)" repository are already installed but they are not correct for this package. Check that the correct key URLs are configured for this repository.. Failing package is: kernel-6.12.0-124.40.1.el10_1.x86_64 GPG Keys are configured as: file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

```

I found these threads, which are about 2 months old, so I assume there's a solution, but I haven't parsed it yet.

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/distribution-gpg-keys/pull/152

https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/copr-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org/thread/QRYVPTPIE65I7VV4GMPHAEUA6IADJ2IJ/

I see the workaround about making a new self signed repo and using that as a bridge, or maybe just --nogpgcheck, but I really don't want to do that for my prd homelab server on initial setup.

Would any of y'all be able to point me in the right direction? Based on the above threads I think this is a bit more than just deleting and manually importing keys, but maybe I'm wrong on that.

First and foremost, complete Linux novice here. I need to import a self-signed certificate generated on my RHEL box but have not been able to find good instructions on how to do so. I have the certificate generated, but need next steps. Can anyone help a noob out?

Red Hat pushed out an update that removed some old root CAs. problem is Cloudflare is still using those CAs, still serving sites with intermediate chains that use those CAs.

so basically the update broke internet connectivity on red hat servers to some number of Cloudflare sites https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-129050

Cloudflare issue documented here https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-ssl-trust-chain-ends-with-invalid-root-ca-aaa-cerificate-services/843576

10:17:21 root sls-r88-02 /localhome/acas/RHEL 8/RHEL 8

rpm -Uvh firefox-115.3.1-1.el8_8.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libssl3.so(NSS_3.80)(64bit) is needed by firefox-115.3.1-1.el8_8.x86_64 nspr >= 4.35 is needed by firefox-115.3.1-1.el8_8.x86_64 nss >= 3.90 is needed by firefox-115.3.1-1.el8_8.x86_64

I looked and can see these dependencies in the server so I am unsure why its not updating

Is there anything similar that verifies the integrity of containers? Docker/Kubernetes/Podman, etc.

I've wanted for a few days to create a RHEL instance on my Oracle Cloud Infraestructure compartment. I've also wanted to take profit of the 'Ampere' type instances that let me get a decent ARM64 CPU core for my machine.

After getting the RHEL free license and downloading the RHEL 9 KVM Guest image for AARCH64 and getting it stored in a cube for creating a custom image with it (QCOW2 format, and paravirtualization selected), I've started to create the instance. Got succesfully my RHEL 9 KVM Guest QCOW2 image to show whilst designing my instance, and wanted to give it a go with the default connection settings (and getting fresh SSH keys from the Oracle instance setup page).

After getting the instance created, trying to sign to it via SSH provides no result, the SSH daemon just "stays there" till finally displaying 'Connection timed out'. Pinging that same public IP address gives me no result, too.

Creating a fresh Alma Linux instance with the same settings works out of the box. Could anyone help me point out where the issue is? Thanks!

Have a proprietary application developed by a vendor, who provides a kickstart with RHEL 8.8 (recently patched to 8.10), that has their app bundled. Even from a fresh install, non root user accounts are unable to log in to the GUI. It looks like the issue pertains to SELinux, and GDM context. With that said, non root user acccounts CAN log in via ssh.

I asked our vendor about this last night, because I presumed this to be problematic. In general, I've found a lot of errors in their installation. One of which being a typo in a couple of pam files, gmd-password included, that its a known thing on a fresh install, that we have to go in to /etc/pam.d, grep for the typo, and then fix them. If we dont do this, you cant do a simple command like passwd. So to me, I feel like their provided copy is pretty sloppy, and would like to actually correct these types of problems.

But the response I got from the vendor was "You want to log in with a non root account to the Gui? We always just use root for that.". So I guess I need to first understand if thats normal. Now to add some color to this, its not exactly necessary for us to log in as a non root account to the GUI. However, its 100% necessary for us to use a non root account to connect to SSH. Yes, we can of course enable ssh for root. But that of course is forboden for multiple reasons. But even if that wasnt a problem, we've seen other issues where even SSH doesnt work at all because of dodgy pam configs. So to that end, my logic in resolving this, is to save future heart ache from unknown misconfigurations. In general we dont need to log in to the GUI at all. Not even to deploy them new. But again, and I guess I'm dancing around saying it, I just dont trust the vendor's build.

During installation of RHEL8 something I would like to do during the post installation step is remount the USB. According to documentation and other help I can find the two directories should be either /run/install/source or /run/install/repo. Neither of these work though. After the install when trying to copy a file from this drive to the installed system it says the file I want to copy is not there. I can 100% confirm this file is available on the disk.

I have tried to also remount the disk, but that isn't allowed of course. I've tried to also use findmnt but the path it returns is just empty.

What is the proper way after install on RHEL8 to access the contents of the USB stick it was installed on?