[squeak-dev] Mac OSX ID

Javier Reyes jreyes at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 00:24:25 UTC 2008


Hi Norbert.

I think you're right. I'll try to combine more than one hardware signature
in the combo. Thanks.

-Javier


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:00 +0200, Javier Reyes wrote:
> > Hi Edgar,
> >
> > It's for a licensing server. I think I've found a way to do it using
> > the ethernet physical ID trough:
> >
> > Applescript doIt: 'do shell script "ifconfig en0"'.
> >
> > And then filtering the physical address.
> >
> This won't work. Usually the MAC address shown is only a copy
> of the number stored on the device. You can alter this address
> easily. Under linux this would be
>
> ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
>
> If you're after licenses you may do some poor microsoft style
> checking. I quick search on google showed the pendant for lspci
> on linux is called pciconf on bsd-like systems. There you get
> the real device ids of all devices attached.
>
> Norbert
>
>
>
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