On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 07:16:13PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
>     First list of applications reading machine-id.
>
>     /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon
>     /usr/bin/dbus-launch
>     /usr/local/waterfox/waterfox
>
>     None of Palemoon, Firefox-ESR or Surf reads machine-id on my ASCII
> laptop. I compiled Palemoon on Jessie maybe two years ago, and I think I
> compiled Waterfox more recently on ASCII.

guys, anything using dbus will most probably (indirectly) access
/var/lib/dbus/machine-id at some point in time, since that file is
read when attempting to send a message via dbus. Please have a look at
dbus' code.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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