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- From: nadeau@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Nadeau Jean-Claude)
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- Subject: Re: two questions
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.195257.23280@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 19:52:57 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.153813.18069@cs.wayne.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep4.153813.18069@cs.wayne.edu> upkar@eng.wayne.edu.UUCP (Upkar Singh Kohli) writes:
- >
- >1. What is the best way to disable echo from within a C program?
- > The purpose is read a password.
- >
- See the "getpass" (3) standard function.
-
- >2. What is the best unique identifier for machines to use for
- > software licensing? I have heard that even the "effective"
- > ethernet address can be changed. I know the hostids can easily
- > be changed on certain architectures like DEC and SGI.
- >
- Some machines have a node id in a ROM on the mother board
- (Apollo work station per example). But there's no
- universal way to use this feature. Sorry ;-(
-
- >Thanks!
- >Upkar
- >
- You are welcome
-
- >(if possible please email upkar@eng.wayne.edu... followup over
- > news will be ok too, except I read it less)
-
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