How to turn off the "Invalid or Missing Entitlement Certificates" message on RHEL

If your RHEL system is not registered with Red Hat Network, you will see the warning message, "Invalid or Missing Entitlement Certificates. This system is missing one or more valid entitlement certificates.", at the top right corner after you log in to the system at run level 5.
Of course, the message will be automatically turned off after you register your system with Red Hat. However if you just want to suppress the message without registering the system, that is possible with a few simple steps. What you need is to disable the rhsm-icon process. Here is the procedure.
  1. Log in to your RHEL system.
  2. Open a terminal, and change the current directory to /etc/xdg/autostart
  3. $ cd /etc/xdg/autostart
    
  4. Rename the rhsm-icon.desktop file.
  5. $ mv rhsm-icon.desktop rhsm-icon.desktop.bak
  6. Log out and log back in to the system
Now you don't see the warning message :)

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4 comments:

umashankar said...

Excellent

Unknown said...

Hi, i'm using OSGD, and my redhat doesn't have the directory autostart. I try ps -ef | grep rhsm but no process like that are up. Any idea ? Best regards

Kyle said...

Thank you. That was quite helpful.

Unknown said...

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