[OT] Problems with permissions etc

[Michael Josephson]

Hi,

On 27 Jul 2005 00:36:37 -0700, "Frank Millman" <frank at chagford.com>
wrote:

>Alternatively, there
>may be a better way of getting the mac address or identifying the
>workstation.

As Paul pointed out you should not rely on the MAC address as a secure
identifier. However, if it's suitable for your purposes you might want
to take a look at libdnet (http://libdnet.sourceforge.net/) which is a
library that provides access to low level networking routines.

Hope this helps,

-Michael