[redhat] A managled rhn systemid will crash sosreport.

Fixes: #742

Signed-off-by: Shane Bradley <sbradley@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sos/policies/redhat.py b/sos/policies/redhat.py
index 9decd0a7..44cc5ff6 100644
--- a/sos/policies/redhat.py
+++ b/sos/policies/redhat.py
@@ -183,9 +183,9 @@ No changes will be made to system configuration.
     def rhn_username(self):
         try:
             # cfg = config.initUp2dateConfig()
-
-            return rpclib.xmlrpclib.loads(
+            rhn_username = rpclib.xmlrpclib.loads(
                 up2dateAuth.getSystemId())[0][0]['username']
+            return rhn_username.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')
         except:
             # ignore any exception and return an empty username
             return ""