On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 10:52:43PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 05:41:59PM -0800, Syeed Ali wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:25:05 -1000
> > Joel Roth via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 05:55:49PM -0700, Keith Christian via Dng
> > > wrote:
> > > > This describes the machine ID:
> > > >
> > > > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html
> > >
> > > So a creation of the freedesktop folks.
> >
> >
> > I like this quote:
> >
> > > It should be considered "confidential", and must not be exposed in
> > > untrusted environments,
> > > ...
>
> Just checked. On my pure devuan system,
> there is no /etc/machine-id filre,
> but there is a /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
>
> Should I worry?

I leave here the link to the thread with the discussion about machine-id
that occurred in this list in 2019

https://www.mail-archive.com/dng@lists.dyne.org/msg24687.html

In /etc/default/dbus you can set the IDTYPE to be a RANDOM value.

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