4.3. Sharing Custom Channels

Once an organizational trust has been established, organizations can now share custom software channels with the other organizations in the trust. There are three levels of channel sharing that can be applied to each channel for finer-grained channel access control:

Private — Make the channel private so that it cannot be accessed by any organizations except the owning organization.
Protected — Allow the channel to be accessed by specific trusted organizations of your choice.
Public — Allow all organizations within the trust to access the custom channel.

Trusted Organizations that are granted access to the custom content using the protected or public access modes can allow their client systems to install and update packages from the shared channel. When a Organization Administrator changes the access of a shared channel to a access level that is not allowed for a consuming organization, the systems subscribed to the shared channel will lose subscription access.

Systems that are subscribed to shared content can be unsubscribed automatically when the following actions occur:

Trust Relationship is removed by the Satellite Administrator
Organization Administrator changes channel access to private
Organization Administrator changes channel access to public and does not include the subscribed system's organization in the protected list
Organization Administrator deletes the shared channel directly
Organization Administrator deletes the parent channel of a shared child channel

All Red Hat software channels are managed through entitlements. Organization Administrators cannot share Red Hat Channels because they are available to all organizations that have entitlements to those channels. The Satellite administrator is responsible for assigning Red Hat software channel entitlements to each organization.