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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/admin_api/register_api.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
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() |