Autore: Adam Borowski Data: To: dng Oggetto: Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id
On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 02:23:20PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > but first things first: do we want /etc/machine-id? and how? > this is currently managed by eudev in devuan and, IIRC, it is simply
> regenerated as a random ID at each boot. > we concluded that keeping it around but re-generating it at boot was the
> way to avoid breakage.
And I say you're 100% right here.
The machine-id:
* is a privacy issue
* gets broken when cloned systems are involved
but defusing it by re-generating every boot works around both of the above
while requiring no patches to affected software.
> Any thoughts on the matter are appreciated, but concrete insight on
> the ins and outs are much more useful I guess (read: please let's
> avoid a useless uninformed flame about that :P).
Be realistic... avoiding an uninformed flame would be against our rules :)
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