Is there any command which provides system's Hardware serial number.

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Issue

  • Cannot use dmidecode as it needs root privileges.

  • Normal users should be allowed to execute the required command.

  • In AIX and Solaris this can be achieved by 'lsconf' and 'smbios' respectively.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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