[SOLVED] How can i get hardware details without "having root privileges"/"using dmidecode"

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[SOLVED] How can i get hardware details without "having root privileges"/"using dmidecode"

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01-07-2013, 08:12 AM	#1
RaviTezu Member Registered: Nov 2012 Location: India Distribution: Fedora, CentOs, RHEL Posts: 164 Rep:	How can i get hardware details without "having root privileges"/"using dmidecode" Can someone help me in getting the hardware details of any Linux system without using dmidecode & without having root privileges. Thanks, Ravi

01-07-2013, 08:28 AM	#2
TobiSGD Moderator Registered: Dec 2009 Location: Germany Distribution: Whatever fits the task best Posts: 17,148 Blog Entries: 2 Rep:	You can use several commands, like Code: lspci lsusb cat /proc/cpuinfo cat /proc/meminfo ...
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01-07-2013, 08:32 AM	#3
RaviTezu Member Registered: Nov 2012 Location: India Distribution: Fedora, CentOs, RHEL Posts: 164 Original Poster Rep:	Thanks TobiSGD.

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