Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@airmail.net> writes:

> Hadron wrote:
>> Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@airmail.net> writes:
>>
>>> Alex wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>> Well... you could run at root via some kind of roll based mechanism
>>> (e.g. sudo).
>>
>> And how is that not running as root or rootlike for the duration of the
>> program which needs root access for the accesses he was mentioning?
>
> Oddly enough key system processes are running as root on his
> box by default (believe it or not).

I know. What is your point? Seriously.

> What was your point? Other than trying to pick a fight?

my point was that running it via sudo is running it as root in most
cases. He wanted a way to access these things NOT as root. No
fight. Just asking why you answered as you did.

>
> I was trying to help.. and you were???

Correcting you.

>
> Sometimes people don't understand security. They simply
> need somebody to help them to better understand how things
> work. If you can't run something in a controlled manner
> as root.. you've got to simply turn the machine off.

WTF are you talking about?