Platform Team/Server Kit/sugar-server

Summary

The core Sugar Server Kit component.

The singular program requires only Python, and obvious dependencies like coreutils, to allow all its services to function properly. It provides basic sugar related services, and uses one CLI tool to manage all its functionality.

Services

The list of services that sugar-server provides. Each service has a described interface to understand how it interact with clients. The counterpart for these interfaces is the sugar-client with a Client API it provides for clients, e.g., Sugar Shell.

id

Provide Sugar users registration on a school server. After being registered, Sugar on users side will setup interaction with a school server, such as:

• Setup jabber sever location,
• url to backup or restore Journal,
• update native packages.

Interface

Service is listening --id-port port on the --host host to serve XML-RPC requests. There is only one RPC function:

dict register(str serial, str nickname, str uuid, str pubkey)

Where pubkey is a SSH DSS public key without the ssh-dss prefix.

The resulting dictionary on success, contains:

• success: OK;
• Several keys that are mapped 1:1 as configuration options of the sugar-client utility. The particular set of keys are details of implementations and processed only internally;
• OLPC XS backwards compatibility keys that are not being processed by sugar-client: backupurl, jabberserver, backuppath.

The resulting dictionary on fails, contains:

• success: ERR;
• error key with error message.

collector

Collect usage statistics gathered by sugar-client in monitor mode for later analyzing.

Requires

• bios-crypto
  bios-crypto client utilities are being used in anti-thief support and should be installed only if sign service is being used.
• python-mysql
  If the rest of school server applications use MySql, it might be useful to keep sugar-server data in MySql as well. Otherwise plain text file will be used.

Configuration

By default, configuration occurs based on several sources (sorted by applied order):

• /etc/sugar-server.conf system-wide configuration file,
• ~/.local/sugar-server/config user-wide configuration file,
• sugar-server's command-line arguments.

Configuration files contain option names equal to command-line arguments. To get the current configuration, call:

sugar-server config

See sugar-server-templates sources for an example.

Getting involved

• Report on bugs.
• Read the HACKING file to know how to contribute with code.

Resources

• Sources.