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- >>>>> "Ian" == Ian C Blenke <blenke@suntan.eng.usf.edu> writes:
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- Ian> Perhaps something akin to TIA's .tiarc authentication
- Ian> scheme. Seems to be a MD5 hash of pertainant information. The
- Ian> difficult part is uniquely identifying a machine - and I'm
- Ian> against using a machine's primary interface IP number (my
- Ian> poor Linux box is forever changing IPs).
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- IP addresses and ethernet addresses are used by some companies, but I
- personally find such licensing schemes much too restrictive. Besides,
- it's not the Linux users that we're worried about anyway (at least
- right now).
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- Ian> Anyway, take a look at TIA's scheme: http://marketplace.com/
- Ian> Personnally, I prefer TERM as TIA's SLIP seems a tad chunky.
-
- Thanks for the pointer. We'll take a look.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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