Alex schrieb:
>
> Is there any API to collect some unique IDs (such as CPU id, harddisk id,
> SKU, etc) from the system w/o running the final software as root?
>
For which purpose you need such an API? Some licensing scheme?

Note that if a geneneric API for such things existed, it would be easy to
circumvent. Enforcing licenses on a user-controlled machine must be done in
an obscure way so the cracker has to take more effort than the software's
worth.

Kind regards

Jan