Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:39:36 -0600 From: Jon Passki <jon.passki@hursk.com> To: Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> Cc: Koen Martens <fbsd@metro.cx>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com> Subject: Re: unique hardware identification Message-ID: <3B777B32-AB3A-4244-BBE1-9E11B287D78B@hursk.com> In-Reply-To: <45BC3624.3000608@pacbell.net> References: <4587F6F1.1050000@metro.cx> <9ab217670612190719r4d72c1d5tcf793aca5c781401@mail.gmail.com> <45BC3624.3000608@pacbell.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 27, 2007, at 23:35 , Daniel Rudy wrote: > At about the time of 12/19/2006 7:19 AM, Devon H. O'Dell stated the > following: >> 2006/12/19, Koen Martens <fbsd@metro.cx>: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I was wondering, if something like a unique hardware identification >>> would be possible on FreeBSD. [snip] If the machine is a PXE-compliant device [2], it should have a GUID/ UUID [1] available. This can be exposed by sysutil/hal [3] via the smbios.system.uuid field. The sysutil/hal port, though, requires a decent amount of dependencies. You might want to give the pkg install a try first. (I happened to have a lot of those ports installed, so it was not an issue for me.) # dbus-daemon --system # hald --verbose=yes 16:39:24.418 [I] hald.c:469: hal 0.5.8 16:39:24.418 [I] hald.c:478: Will daemonize 16:39:24.418 [I] hald.c:479: Becoming a daemon # hal-get-property --udi /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer --key smbios.system.uuid 64837263-8462-7493-1212-FFFFFFFFFFFF Cheers, Jon [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_Unique_Identifier [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment [3] http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/hal/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFvNHRZpJsLIS+QSIRAvygAJwMqBHhdPhCwkaAnEo/MSBsbeig+QCeMc+c HR4Wcvmt4kcZyaD1S76Hby4= =YQQw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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