On 1/20/22 01:13, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 1/20/22 06:16, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> Deleting /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf means making the agent look like a >>> new system, with new IDs, a renumbered interface table, and loss of >>> SNMPv3 users. >> >> You're not going to wipe /var to do a reset casually - the idea would >> be, this hardware isn't coming back to this environment. An easy >> option with snapshots is you can define your own rollback point, which >> includes environment specific configuration rather than the "wipe /var >> and /etc" method of factory reset. > > Who exactly is the alleged user of the "factory reset" feature? > > Nobody in their right mind should think, or be lead to think, that 'rm > -rf /some /dirs' is sufficient to wipe your possibly confidential data > to a degree that you can just ship the hardware away. > > - Panu -
Agreed. “Factory reset” means either “I trust the secure erase function on all of my disks” or “all the data that has ever hit the disk was encrypted and I just securely deleted the encryption key”. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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