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Date:      Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:52:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matthew George <mdg@secureworks.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
Subject:   Re: Hardware Serial Numbers under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20041105115154.C28258@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20041105155647.GG10428@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20041104115425.A95642@prime.gushi.org> <20041105155647.GG10428@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Dan Nelson wrote:

> ports can print it.  As for the motherboard serial number, you'll
> probably need to open the case to get that, but try the "dmidecode"
> port.  My Asus board prints a serial number of "xxxxxxxxxxx", but other
> boards might actually put a real value in there.
>
>

If you have IBM hardware, you can use vpd(4)

-- 
Matthew George
SecureWorks Technical Operations



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