On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 10:27:20AM +0200, David Sapir wrote: > > > Hi, > > I need to identify a computer in a unique way. Can anyone point me to > > source code in C or C++ that gets from the system: > > There is no way to do this, in the general case, except maybe by using > the CPU ID, which doesn't exist on most CPUs and is disabled on most > of the rest. You can take a look under /proc/* to see most of these > values, though. You should also add the MAC address. Anyway - if we're talking about restincting software usage .. "identification" with computer is a very difficult thing to accomplish with the standard hardware set. it is a little easier to "authenticate" by the user, and not by a computer. anyway, i would look into some "dongle" - USB disk on key memory or CF/SD flash memory or even some magnetic ID card reader.
yet all of these can be forged. apropos magnetic cards... Does anybody on the list know what are prices for: 1) Barcode readers 2) Magnetic card reader ??? Thanks in advance. M. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
