Gastón via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> 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

Thanks! Savves me the trouble of digging out myself ;-)

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

On my daedalus preview installer installed mini PC, RANDOM has been the
value since installation. There were no questions in this area, even in
the expert installation mode.

Checking on my initially jessie installed laptop, subsequently upgraded
to ascii and then beowulf, this setting was added when I upgraded dbus
from 1.10.22-1+devuan1 to 1.10.22-1+devuan2 (on 2019-03-17).

Hope this helps,
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