Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758873AbXK2Pqb (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:46:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755820AbXK2PqV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:46:21 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.184]:42157 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752863AbXK2PqU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:46:20 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=u06PwBc2uksN61sJg0MhAXeHg7xNsUonRfzGxOoK6yt269FD5yvw02XjsSGqnYaCllpdp9ugS0D+rhR4vGnmf2ekXah3dYkeOsTNlbccc7SMIidocyLkaxu7u+bOgBHdYWgJFwjCN4QS/JJ2LbuGfxrLv5LX+6TIYdlG8Iqauh0= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:46:19 -0800 From: "Dan Kegel" To: "Xavier Bestel" Subject: Re: Relax permissions for reading hard drive serial number? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1196350632.20567.191.camel@skunk.anacadf.mentorg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1196350632.20567.191.camel@skunk.anacadf.mentorg.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: cf440fa1f45b58c4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1040 Lines: 23 On Nov 29, 2007 7:37 AM, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > One sticking point is that apps like Photoshop and probably > > Punkbuster want to retrieve the hard drive's serial number > > So they can't be installed on a network drive ? I think Adobe supports that, though perhaps not with the retail version. Big companies with network drives are probably an important revenue source for them. I haven't looked closely at what happens when you try installing onto network drives. If you are really interested, it's pretty easy to try yourself; just run the app under wine with WINEDEBUG=+cdrom,+disk and look in the log for calls like CreateFile("\\\\.\\PhysicalDrive0", ...). There's some chance the code always checks drive 0 instead of the drive you're installing onto. - Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/