Hardware key

Vance Bass bass at cs.utk.edu
Sat Jul 14 01:46:58 AEST 1990


In article <25121 at unix.cis.pitt.edu> mike at unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Mike Elliot) writes:
>This brings me to the next part of the project, copyprotection. Does
>the 6000 have an internal hardware id like the suns, or can I get
>an external one like the HP's? How do I talk to them? If the above two
>don't exist, what do others out there do for copyprotection.

Yes, each processor board has a unique identification number.  Run
"lscfg -v -l sysplanar0 | grep Identification" to see the number.


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