On Mar 4, 2018 8:40 PM, "'Luther Goh Lu Feng' via BeagleBoard" < [email protected]> wrote:
As shared by Robert [1], the command to retrieve the serial number is as follows: sudo hexdump -e '8/1 "%c"' /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0050/eeprom -n 28 | cut -b 5-28 Is there anyway to get the serial number without using sudo? My use case is that I wish to let other programs use the serial number, but I do not wish for these progams to have sudo privilege. What are the possible approaches? So cache it.. read once as root at startup and store it somewhere readable, /tmp/.... Regards, -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYiMEjZeUDzPZPnqhNpoo2%3DyQtrXYKeLhL0JQ17F6MyixQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
