Way to tell if it is an XO

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

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

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