On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:02:07PM -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote: > Hi there, > > I see that there is a concern that we need to keep machine-id private > (and local?). I haven't been able to determine exactly why though*. > In most cases it's randomly generated afaict.
It's a unique identifier for the machine. It is also used to generate other unique identifiers. > I'd consider using it to replace whoopsie-id which is generated from > the machines BIOS information now to track bugs reported from the same > machine in the Ubuntu error tracker[1]. It would need to stay > constant for that install and be easy to get locally via file > collection which is why I think I'd prefer using the straight > machine-id to the just added app helper function[2]. Please don't do that. The app helper function is there for a reason. You can use that, or do the equivalent steps in a different way. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
