From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 14:17:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80B737BD84 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:17:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA05888; Wed, 24 May 2000 16:17:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:17:37 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "MITZKA, JOHN (LNG)" Subject: Re: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Message-ID: <20000524161737.A2307@dan.emsphone.com> References: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1E3@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1E3@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com>; from "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" on Wed May 24 16:16:24 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 24), TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) said: > Clearly, someone wanting to generate a true universally unique > identifier (someone like myself, for instance) would be using the > time-based option of a Linux uuidgen. It is this type of > securely-generated UUID that I am interested in. Does anyone on this > list know if FreeBSD has such a utility/libraries, or am I simply > doomed to be subjected to more of Mr. Nelson's tangental smarty-pants > replies about jot random number generation? nyah nyah :) No, FreBSD doesn't have a program to pull the ethernet address and print a guid formatted like Linux's "uuidgen -t". I don't imagine that the program would be hard to port to FreeBSD, though. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message