Subscription-manager throws the error 'Repositories disabled by configuration' when attempting to enable a repository

Solution Verified - Updated 18 Dec 2025

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Simple Content Access (SCA)
Red Hat Subscription Manager(RHSM)
Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

Not able to enable the repository using subscription-manager commands.
subscription-manager shows Repositories disabled by configuration
Unable to manage the repositories using subscription-manager commands.
The /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo file is not updated after refreshing yum.
Unable to install any package as yum is failing with below error:

Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Error: There are no enabled repositories in "/etc/yum.repos.d", "/etc/yum/repos.d", "/etc/distro.repos.d".

Registering hosts with Red Hat Satellite 6 server fails with the following error:

Curl error (58): Problem with the local SSL certificate for https://satellite.example.com/pulp/content/Org/env/content/dist/..../repomd.xml [could not load PEM client certificate, OpenSSL error error:80000002:system library::No such file or directory, (no key found, wrong pass phrase, or wrong file format?)]

Resolution

Make sure that the repositories are allowed to be managed from the subscription-manager module.
```
# subscription-manager config --rhsm.manage_repos=1
```
To verify if content access is failing due to Simple Content Access, refer Simple content access is failing because date/time is incorrectly set.

Root Cause

This is a known issue and is currently being tracked under JIRA This content is not included.SAT-39803.
Repository management was disabled in /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file, which is responsible for configuring the repositories provided by available subscriptions via the subscription-manager module.

Diagnostic Steps

Verify if the value of manage_repos parameter is set to 0.

    [root@machine ~]# subscription-manager config | grep -i manage_repos 
         manage_repos = [0]

    [root@machine ~]# cat /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf | grep -i manage_repos
    manage_repos = 0

SBR

Product(s)

Red Hat Subscription Management

Components

subscription-manager

Category

Configure

Tags

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