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Controlling who can run an executable

Myles Strous myles at geocities.com
Tue Oct 4 01:47:44 EDT 2005 
Mike Meyer wrote:

> You don't need to install special hardware to get that. There are a
> number of pieces of hardware that you can find in a modern computer
> that may have a unique serial number you can use as a
> dongle. Possibilities include a CPU serial number, an HD serial
> number, and the MAC address of any network cards: ethernet, wireless,
> and apparently FireWire drivers have them. People have used all of
> them in the past.

What's more, Tim Golden's wmi module (see
http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html) makes getting at these
numbers very easy:

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
for thingy in c.Win32_NetworkAdapter():
  print "Network Adaptor", thingy.MACAddress
for thingy in c.Win32_Processor():
    print "Processor", thingy.ProcessorId
for thingy in c.Win32_BIOS():
    print "BIOS", thingy.SerialNumber
for thingy in c.Win32_BaseBoard():
    print "BaseBoard", thingy.SerialNumber
for thingy in c.Win32_SystemEnclosure():
    print "System Enclosure", thingy.SerialNumber
for thingy in c.Win32_DiskDrive():
    print "Disk Drive", thingy.PNPDeviceID
for thingy in c.Win32_PhysicalMedia():
    print "Physical Media", thingy.SerialNumber

Regards, Myles.
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