[Bugs] #916 NORM: Allow SoaS to register with an XS server

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#916: Allow SoaS to register with an XS server
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    Reporter:  hamiltonchua  |          Owner:  sdz                        
        Type:  enhancement   |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Normal        |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  SoaS          |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified   |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfirmed   |  
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Changes (by martin.langhoff):

 * cc: martin.langhoff (added)


Comment:

 Hamilton, thanks for the patches. There are few issues however.

  - I take it the diffs and the full files are equivalent, yes?

  - Why do you remove -z from the rsynz invokation?

  - Why do you set -a? In my testing, this will cause trouble as we want
 different mode on the XS.

  - The code won't work on old Sugar. Better to make the gconf codepaths
 conditional, so we have a single ds-backup that works on both.

  - I agree - gconf is a bad place to store info that may be needed from
 cron, have you got the new, updated patch?

  - Can you make your diffs with '-u' so we get nice unified diffs? :-)

  - The code in schoolserver.py that sets that SN/UUID should create them
 based on random values the first time it is called, and _store_ them.
 Right now you are tying the UUID to the MAC address of the machine. If
 SoaS is used as designed, the user may change the actual hardware on every
 run, effectively changing the MAC address. Not so good. Forget about the
 physical machine -- get a random value, make SN & UUID from it, store it,
 reuse it forevermore.

 Put myself in CC.
 ~ cheers ~

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