Why does Importing entitlement certificates for offline registration fail with "Error:You may not import certificates into a system that is registered to a subscription management service." ?
Issue
- Error observed with command
subscription-manager import --certificate
# subscription-manager import --certificate=/tmp/<Downloaded_Entitlement_Cert>.pem
Error: You may not import certificates into a system that is registered to a subscription management service.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 and later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 and later
- Red Hat Subscription Manager(RHSM)
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