[comp.unix.aix] Hardware key

mike@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Mike Elliot) (06/22/90)

Thanks to everyone who answered my query for the location of Xaw and Xmu.
Everything compiles and runs fine.

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.

-mje

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			Mike Elliot
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			mike@pittvms.bitnet

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more
doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a
new system.  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by
the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in
those who would gain by the new ones.

			-Machiavelli

bass@cs.utk.edu (Vance Bass) (07/13/90)

In article <25121@unix.cis.pitt.edu> mike@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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eli@panda.uucp (Eli Taub/100000) (07/17/90)

In article <25121@unix.cis.pitt.edu> mike@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Mike Elliot) writes:
>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.

Try: uname -m 

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