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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd">
<chapter id="feature-subscription">
<title>Subscription Manager</title>
<para>Cockpit can use
<ulink url="https://www.candlepinproject.org/">Subscription Manager</ulink> to join the
attach the machine to a subscription, if the operating system (such as RHEL) requires this. This
functionality is in the Cockpit <emphasis>subscriptions</emphasis> package.</para>
<para>Subscription Manager limits its use to root only. Therefore if a non-root user
is logged into Cockpit, Cockpit tries to <link linkend="privileges">escalate privileges</link>
to root in order to access subscription information or make changes.</para>
<para>To perform similar tasks from the command line, use the
<ulink url="https://linux.die.net/man/8/subscription-manager"><code>subscription-manager</code></ulink>
tool:</para>
<programlisting>
$ <command>sudo subscription-manager status</command>
+-------------------------------------------+
System Status Details
+-------------------------------------------+
...
</programlisting>
</chapter>
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