On solaris, is there a command to get the Ethernet Card MAC Address without being root

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On Solaris, is there a command that I can run to get the MAC address of an ethernet card without running "/sbin/ifconfig -a" as root. Running /sbin/ifconfig -a as a non root user leaves out the MAC address - go figure!

Thanks,

Paul

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