From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:31:48 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add resonable functions for public_id and private_id.
X-Git-Tag: v0.2~10
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=31a30328cfd7824580ae63c529266593251f8877;p=oddments%2Ffireinfo.git

Add resonable functions for public_id and private_id.

Finding a valid unique_id is still to do.
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diff --git a/fireinfo/system.py b/fireinfo/system.py
index 6a19d98..74028a6 100644
--- a/fireinfo/system.py
+++ b/fireinfo/system.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
 
-
+import hashlib
 import json
 import os
 import string
@@ -62,12 +62,32 @@ class System(object):
 
 	@property
 	def public_id(self):
-		return "0"*40
+		"""
+			This returns a globally (hopefully) ID to identify the host
+			later (by request) in the database.
+		"""
+		return hashlib.sha1(self._unique_id).hexdigest()
 	
 	@property
 	def private_id(self):
-		return "1"*40
-	
+		"""
+			The private ID is built out of the _unique_id and used to
+			permit a host to do changes on the database.
+
+			No one could ever guess this without access to the host.
+		"""
+		return hashlib.sha1("%s" % reversed(self._unique_id)).hexdigest()
+
+	@property
+	def _unique_id(self):
+		"""
+			This is a helper ID which is generated out of some hardware information
+			that is considered to be constant over a PC's lifetime.
+
+			None of the data here is ever sent to the server.
+		"""
+		return "123456789" # XXX just a dummy
+
 	@property
 	def language(self):
 		with open("/var/ipfire/main/settings", "r") as f: