[squeak-dev] Mac OSX ID

Javier Reyes jreyes at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 00:29:39 UTC 2008


Wow Javier,

That's another good one.You're wise men ;-)

-Javier (bis)



On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Javier Diaz-Reinoso <javier_diaz_r at mac.com>
wrote:

> Try (in 10.5):
>
>  ioreg -l -w 0 | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber
>
> but what about other OS versions?
>
>
> On 23/04/2008, at 13:35, Marc Nijdam wrote:
>
>  if you're willing to write a plugin here's a native snippet of C/ObjC you
> > can use to get the serial number.
> >
> >   io_service_t platformExpert = IOServiceGetMatchingService(
> >       kIOMasterPortDefault,
> >       IOServiceMatching("IOPlatformExpertDevice"));
> >
> >   if (platformExpert) {
> >       CFTypeRef serialNumberAsCFString =
> >           IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(platformExpert,
> >
> > CFSTR(kIOPlatformSerialNumberKey),
> >                                           kCFAllocatorDefault, 0);
> >       IOObjectRelease(platformExpert);
> >   }
> >
> > hth,
> >
> > --Marc
> >
> > On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:28 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On 23-Apr-08, at 10:35 AM, Norbert Hartl 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.
> > > >
> > > I assume simply replacing the ethernet card - or even just adding one
> > > and reassigning which is en0 - would mess it up pretty badly.
> > >
> > > Many CPus have an actual unique ID that is findable somewhere. Even
> > > there you're in trouble if the cpu has to be replaced due to failure of
> > > upgrade.
> > >
> > >
> > > tim
> > > --
> > > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > > The next generation of computers will have a "Warranty Expired"
> > > interrupt.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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