[Sugar-devel] GPA collaboration Issues - owner key theory

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 21:56:11 EDT 2009


Have we experimented with unmodified keys?

-walter

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline at meekshome.com>wrote:

> We will delete  ~/.sugar/owner.key and ~/.sugar/owner.key.pub when we
> reburn the sticks on Monday.
>
> However, my problem with this theory is that l've been cloning pretty much
> the same Stick from FOSSVT on.  Other places we have multiple people using
> the same stick without this problem.  However, we have mostly be using
> wireless not wired. Woudl that make a difference?
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Dave Bauer <dave.bauer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Sorry, this was meant to go to the list no just Caroline.
>> >
>> > Begin forwarded message:
>> >
>> >> From: Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>> >> Date: 9 July 2009 15:54:34 BST
>> >> To: Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
>> >> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SoAS Testing with XS
>> >>
>> >> On 9 Jul 2009, at 15:19, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> It was worth a try but I see exactly the same behavior on the media
>> >>> lab jabber server.
>> >>>
>> >>> One thing I think I am noticing. It seems like one machine at a
>> >>> time is connected to the Jabber Server.
>> >>>
>> >>> What happens when a machine connects?
>> >>> Is there anyway that one machine connecting could cause another to
>> >>> disconnect?
>> >>> Are these machines in some way replicating something about them
>> >>> when the server things it should be unique?
>> >>> Could there be some sort of firewall or a caching service that
>> >>> decides its a duplicate and cuts one of them off?
>> >>
>> >> Ooooohh geeezz... How did you make the sticks? Did you boot one and
>> >> tweak it, then clone that one? There are all sorts of files
>> >> generated when you boot a system that make it unique that would need
>> >> to be very carefully erased to make the stick image was 'fresh'. No
>> >> one has a full list of all these files and their various
>> >> interactions, though I think some have tried.
>> >>
>>
>> The jabber id is generated from ~/.sugar/owner.key.
>> Removing ~/.sugar/owner.key and ~/.sugar/owner.key.pub generates a new
>> key after reboot and the jabber id is reset.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> --Gary
>> >
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