Thanks a lot for your answers. Yes, I think a shared credentials are the best way.
Basically we want to offer a service just for the Xos and are working now on the authentication model. We are going to use webservices with WSS<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss> and place a signed key on each XO that is going to use the service, to authenticate with the webservice provider. Regards, Marcel On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/ > >
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