Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:15:35 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Relax permissions for reading hard drive serial number? |
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Hi!
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=96836765403118&w=2, Linus wrote: > > Hmm.. I have this feeling that it would be much nicer to > > just implement the NT system calls directly. > > ... > > I wouldn't be adverse to supporting Wine better... > > A few years on, Wine has matured to the point where it's > ready to run quite a few apps, even some protected by Safedisc. > One sticking point is that apps like Photoshop and probably > Punkbuster want to retrieve the hard drive's serial number, > but Linux restricts access to that info: > $ ls -l /proc/ide/hda/identify > -r-------- 1 root root 0 2007-11-29 07:05 /proc/ide/hda/identify > (And even if /proc/ide goes away, the other ways of retrieving > this info are similarly restricted to root.) > > Any reason the access control on this info shouldn't be eased a bit, > e.g. make /proc/ide/*/identify be mode 444?
I think conslusion was 'unchangeable machine ids are root-only'. But perhaps you can chmod in startup scripts?
> An alternative might be for Wine to simply fake the serial number, > but I would like to avoid that if possible.
Fake it, I'd say. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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