Anil Gulecha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a very simple way to generate PCID in an x86
> machinevery early in the bootup (when root file system is mounted).
> the varience should be enough to distinguish between various desktps,
> laptops and motherboards. I'm not looking for absolute unique IDs
> (around 8 characters).
> 
> Currently I came up :
> /usr/X11/bin/scanpci | /usr/bin/digest -a md5 | /usr/bin/cut -c 1-8
> 
> .. that normally works and would be useful enough, but it throws an
> error when used evry early at startup ( digest: failed PKCS11
> CKR_GENERAL_ERROR or some such. Adding a 'cryptoadm start' before thid
> did not help : /dev/cryptoadm not found)

cryptoadm start is explicitly documented as a private interface don't 
call it.

You need to have your script that does this depend on the 
svc://system/cryptosvc:default SMF service.

-- 
Darren J Moffat
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