diff --git a/docs/admin_api/register_api.rst b/docs/admin_api/register_api.rst
index 16d65c86b3..084e74ebf5 100644
--- a/docs/admin_api/register_api.rst
+++ b/docs/admin_api/register_api.rst
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ 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, and either
-the string "admin" or "notadmin", each separated by NULs. For an example of
-generation in Python::
+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::
import hmac, hashlib
- def generate_mac(nonce, user, password, admin=False):
+ def generate_mac(nonce, user, password, admin=False, user_type=None):
mac = hmac.new(
key=shared_secret,
@@ -59,5 +59,8 @@ generation in Python::
mac.update(password.encode('utf8'))
mac.update(b"\x00")
mac.update(b"admin" if admin else b"notadmin")
+ if user_type:
+ mac.update(b"\x00")
+ mac.update(user_type.encode('utf8'))
return mac.hexdigest()
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