How to obtain serial number in linux

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Emiliano Pastorino wrote:
> Hi, everyone!
> I need to get the XO serial number from console. Is it possible? The only
> way i found was from boot screen, but i need to match serial number 
> with mac
> address. I can do it by hand, but... you know... doing that with 
> thousands
> of XO it´s just a bit hard
>
This is possible only with a recent kernel from the 406 series of 
builds, and in general will not be doable. The SN and UUID will be 
fairly tightly controlled, with only a few privileged apps having access 
to them.

--Noah