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diff --git a/changelog.d/13472.doc b/changelog.d/13472.doc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2ff6317300 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/13472.doc @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Add `openssl` example for generating registration HMAC digest. diff --git a/docs/admin_api/register_api.md b/docs/admin_api/register_api.md index c346090bb1..d7b7cf6a76 100644 --- a/docs/admin_api/register_api.md +++ b/docs/admin_api/register_api.md @@ -46,7 +46,24 @@ As an example: The MAC is the hex digest output of the HMAC-SHA1 algorithm, with the key being the shared secret and the content being the nonce, user, password, either the string "admin" or "notadmin", and optionally the user_type -each separated by NULs. For an example of generation in Python: +each separated by NULs. + +Here is an easy way to generate the HMAC digest if you have Bash and OpenSSL: + +```bash +# Update these values and then paste this code block into a bash terminal +nonce='thisisanonce' +username='pepper_roni' +password='pizza' +admin='admin' +secret='shared_secret' + +printf '%s\0%s\0%s\0%s' "$nonce" "$username" "$password" "$admin" | + openssl sha1 -hmac "$secret" | + awk '{print $2}' +``` + +For an example of generation in Python: ```python import hmac, hashlib @@ -70,4 +87,4 @@ def generate_mac(nonce, user, password, admin=False, user_type=None): mac.update(user_type.encode('utf8')) return mac.hexdigest() -``` \ No newline at end of file +``` |