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- From: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore)
- Subject: Re: hostid under AIX
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:19:17 GMT
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- ---------In article <1gra20INN40h@manuel.anu.edu.au>, mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au (Mathew BM LIM)
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- |>I'm need to find a method for "liscencing" software on an AIX system. On
- |>a Sun I would use hostid to get a unique identifier for the machine I'm on.
- |>Under AIX, hostid seems to be made from the system's hostname, IP address
- |>or just a random hex number, so it's easy for someone with root access to
- |>bypass any access restriction scheme based on hostid.
- |>
- |>Is there anyway of getting a machine specific identifier which is not
- |>easily faked? Under SVR4, one could use sysinfo to get the serial number
- |>of the machine, is this possible under AIX?
- |>
- |>Thanks in advance ....
- |>Mathew Lim, Unix Systems Programmer, ANU Supercomputer Facility,
- |>Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra City, ACT, Australia 2601.
- |>Telephone : +61 6 249 2750 |
- |>Fax : +61 6 247 3425 | E-Mail : M.Lim@anu.edu.au
- |>
- how about
- uname -m
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- Dwight D. Moore
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- University of Oklahoma
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