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Hi, I have found two ways to get the main board product name: [sudo lshw] [sudo dmidecode] Is it the nature of this info that's making it protected or is ...
  1. 05-10-2011 #1
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    Get main board product name without sudo

    Hi,

    I have found two ways to get the main board product name:

    1. [sudo lshw]
      [sudo dmidecode]


    Is it the nature of this info that's making it protected or is it the source code of these tools?

    Is there any way to get main board product name without sudo? Shall I dig inside the source code of these tools?

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    The mainboard info is located in the root account of file system. So Admin only has the right to access that info. Hence sudo, su, with a password to get that info from root file system. Once you access that info. You can copy and paste it to text file and save the text in /home where users can have access without using sudo.
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    If you want to take the security risk, you can enable the setuid bit on these applications (as root):
    Code:
    chmod +s /usr/sbin/dmidecode
    On my system, lshw is executable by regular users without sudo. It is also in /usr/sbin, so most users may need to either execute it via the full path /usr/sbin/lshw, or add /usr/sbin to their PATH environment.
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