From cbd1a5e90baeda189435fed2df63361454a2cb35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 07:46:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] One-time operation --- beaglebone.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/beaglebone.txt b/beaglebone.txt index a9ad4616..f3b7de65 100644 --- a/beaglebone.txt +++ b/beaglebone.txt @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ It should return the message "/Factory/". This is intended to provide an indica hashlet --bus=/dev/i2c-2 personalize #+END_SRC -Nothing should be returned by this command, but a file called ~/.hashlet will be generated which is the private key of the device. To make sure it's only accessible by the root user: +Nothing should be returned by this command, but a file called ~/.hashlet will be generated which is the private key of the device. This personalization process is a one-time operation which physically alters the hardware, so it would not be trivial to reset the device back to "Factory" again. To make sure it's only accessible by the root user: #+BEGIN_SRC: bash chmod 400 ~/.hashlet