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Autor: Curtis Maurand
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To: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] Another reason for why I use Devuan


On 2/21/22 14:02, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng wrote:
> Anno domini 2022 Mon, 21 Feb 18:08:20 +0000
> Arnt Karlsen scripsit:
>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 02:44:12 -0300, Gastón wrote in message
>> <20220218054412.GA5165@???>:
>>
>>> 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?
>> ..dunno, chk
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/dng@lists.dyne.org/msg24726.html
>>
>>> 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.
>> ..thanks for the remainder, I had a feeling I had forgotten something
>> of importance updating a wee spare ascii disk install to chimaera.
> IMO it's set to RANDOM by default, at leaset it is on my machines. But I run daedalus.
>
> Nik


I'm running both Beowulf and Chimaera. it's set to "RANDOM" on
everything.  I never changed it.  I never knew about it, so thank you
all for the education.

--Curtis
>
>> ..lost a coupla days worth of emails and command line history in my 1GB
>> stopped dead disk, after getting distracted from backup-ing blue smoking
>> the red and blue wiring off my other Precision M4400, crisy clear green
>> monochrome at 1920x1200@60Hz didn't leave enough video memory for any X
>> on any plug-in screen, all the while while the consoles were annoyingly
>> consoling. ;oD
>>
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