Dear Gurus/Experts of UNIX/LINUX,

Im Isravel from India, I've customized CentOS Installation ISO as per my new product requirements. I want to give serial key authentication to the clients who all are trying to install ISO file.

Can anyone guide me how to create serial key authentication during the installation.

I do really understand It's an open source, I have customized for new product testing and its not for sale. Its for free with new authentication option

Thank in Advance

Isravel

Your question makes no sense. If it's for free, then why would you complicate anything with "serial key authentication", and make users put it in, when they can just install CentOS as is, WITHOUT it? And you say your "product requirements"...which very clearly says that it IS for sale.

If you have already customized your CentOS installation, figured out how to make an ISO of this image, and are ready to sell it, it's odd that you can't do this one piece. Unless you have written your own software that is proprietary, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to sell CentOS, no matter how much you customize it. The better solution for you, would be to modify your 'requirement', and package your OWN software (which you DO have rights to sell), with the authentication/serial-key built into it, since modifying your own code should be easy. Have it run whatever scripts needed to modify CentOS, install your package, and be 'legal'. Once you do that, the customer can get their own copy of CentOS, and do the basic installation. You distribute your program and it will modify things accordingly.

Dear TB0ne,

Thank you for your reply.

Forget about what i said before.. I don't want to(I'm not going to) create serial key authentication for installation anymore.

Thanks

Isravel