On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:15:53 -0400
"Boyer, Jason" <jasonb@myjclibrary.org> wrote:

> I know this may be a little too "Microsoft" for some, but if we'd
> like a persistent unique ID for a machine, why not just make one at
> install time, the way Windows machines are issued SIDs? 
> 
That comes back to the question of the purpose.  I, for example, want
to be able to read battery serial numbers, so I can track their
performance over time via envstat.  


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb