Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:47:45 -0400 From: "TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG)" <matthew.temple@lexis-nexis.com> To: "'Dan Nelson'" <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "MITZKA, JOHN (LNG)" <JOHN.MITZKA@lexis-nexis.com> Subject: RE: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility Message-ID: <27E4B476932BD211945B00805FE67AF5089DE1E7@lnxdayexch05.lexis-nexis.com>
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Ok, thanks. =) And thanks for taking my ribbing so well...I was in a nasty mood yesterday and I was apparently having trouble keeping it to myself. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Nelson [SMTP:dnelson@emsphone.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 5:18 PM > To: TEMPLE, MATTHEW (LNG) > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'; MITZKA, JOHN (LNG) > Subject: Re: uuidgen or other GUID-generating utility > > 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
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