Hi, On 09.12.2008 22:37, Chris Ball wrote: > > Hello, I need to know what is a good way to find out if the local > > machine running a python script is a XO. > > One way might be to "cat /ofw/model". If the file doesn't exist, or > doesn't return a letter and number, you probably aren't running on an > XO. > > > The goal is to check it the machine running the program is in fact > > an XO or some other machine, and to do it in a way that is very > > hard to fake from some other computer. > > I don't think making this hard to fake is possible, because any computer > with root access can reply to your test in whatever way is necessary. > I think you probably shouldn't try to accomplish this, or should try to > use a different method such as a pre-shared credential. >
Yes, regardless of which test Marcel implements, it should be easy to fool the test in a few minutes. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
