Re: System serial number
Re: System serial number
- Subject: Re: System serial number
- From: Tomas Zahradnicky <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:57:10 +0200
Does any Mac has a unique system serial number?
And if yes, what do I have to do to find the serial number programatically?
Hi Stefan,
all modern Macs have serial number but it is not guaranteed to be
unique. It is strongly discouraged by Apple to use it. There're other
rather unique values that can be easily obtained and are sufficient
for unique identification like. These are i.e. ethernet (MAC) address
of a network card, keyboard id, volume creation date etc.
If you really want to get the serial-number property which can be
found i.e. by IORegExplorer.app you have to use IOKit to do that. If
you really want to get that property, write me a message and I'll
send you a code to find it out.
-Tomas
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Ing. Tomas Zahradnicky, Jr.
Production Manager, 24U Software
Associate Member, Filemaker Solutions Alliance
mailto:email@hidden
http://www.24uSoftware.com
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