In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
  >Joey Hess writes:
  >> Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address.
  >
  >And this is supposed to make it unique?  Somehow I suspect that mine is not
  >the only machine with IP 192.168.1.
 
RTFM?! The man page says that hostid is _normally_ set to resemble the 
host's internet address; it can be set by the superuser to any value.

>From the point of view of a vendor wanting to secure a software licence,
it's not much good!
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