How to obtain serial number in linux

[Jim Gettys]

Serial number is/should be easily available; after all, it's printed on
the machine.

The UUID, however, will not be so exposed.
                         - Jim


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 12:03 -0400, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> 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
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Jim Gettys
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