[Server-devel] thoughts on registering SoaS with an XS and moodle integration

[John Watlington]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Hamilton Chua wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask what the plan is for allowing Sugar running on
> hardware other than an XO to register with an XS.

It is encouraged.

> I had a quick look at /usr/bin/registration-server in the XS and
> schoolserver.py in a Sugar installation and I was able to "trick"  
> the XS
> into registering an SoaS by modifying schoolserver.py on the SoaS. I
> removed the part of the code that checks for the XO information and
> modified the def that handles registration to send randomly generated
> strings for serial and UUID instead.
>
> I guess it's really not that hard to do but it would be nice to  
> have an
> accepted way of doing it.

> For instance, maybe we could modify schoolserver.py to generate a  
> serial
> and UUID if Sugar is not on an XO laptop instead of saying the  
> required
> info is not present.

Sounds like a great idea!
The only requirement is that serial numbers be unique.  Generating
that in a script can be challenging.   Perhaps a one way hash of the
MAC address ?   But MAC addresses are only unique to one media.

Cheers,
wad


wad