On Tuesday, 22 February at 08:56, Curtis Maurand wrote:
>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
>>

One day when I was feeling feisty, I just manually softlinked both to
/dev/null. No idea what the long-term consequences might be, but so far, so
good.

- Antoine

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