Unable to delete any registered systems: Exception value: 'login failed (taskomatic_user)'

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Environment

SUSE Manager 4.3

Situation

It is not possible to delete any registered systems from the SUMA Server, via the WebUI this fails with:

An error occurred during cleanup Server error, please check log files

In the "/var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log" the following error can be seen:

[Thread-3340] 2024-05-22T14:29:00 - INFO | Exception occurred: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
[Thread-3340] 2024-05-22T14:29:00 - INFO | Exception value: 'login failed (taskomatic_user)'
[Thread-3340] 2024-05-22T14:29:00 - INFO | Exception Info:
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 3768, in _dispatch return method_handle(*params)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 3528, in login utils.die("login failed (%s)" % login_user)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 102, in die raise CX(msg)

Resolution

Verify that the following lines are present in "/etc/cobbler/modules.conf":

[authentication]
module = authentication.spacewalk
hash_algorithm = sha3_512

Cause

Incorrect cobbler configuration.

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