From: Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:37:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3404666.JtmPAIHfr2@eve> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110623223043.GG20378@solfire>
On Friday 24 June 2011 00:30:43 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> [11-06-23 17:52]:
> > On Thursday 23 June 2011 04:49:57 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box.
> > > I did a qfile for this and nothing was found.
> > >
> > > What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > mcc
> >
> > I don't have that file on any of my machines, however, a quick google
> > reveals this may be related to dbus:
> >
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2011-March/014188.html
> >
> > Maybe someone else can shed some more light on this?
> >
> > --
> > Joost
>
> I dont like the idea of haveing something on my box, which make it
> identificable or unique ... thinking of the diskussion of the use
> and misuse of a CPU-ID.
> Reading /dev/urandom instead is more what it should be in my opinion,
> since that changes from boot to boot...
>
> Paranoia is your best friend.... ;-/
>
> mcc
"rm /etc/machine-id" right after the root-partition is remounted RW should
solve that? :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-24 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-23 2:49 [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ??? meino.cramer
2011-06-23 5:54 ` Mick
2011-06-23 7:31 ` justin
2011-06-23 10:50 ` Philip Webb
2011-06-23 7:51 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-06-23 22:30 ` meino.cramer
2011-06-24 13:37 ` Joost Roeleveld [this message]
2011-06-25 13:05 ` Mark Knecht
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