also sprach Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> [2013.02.21.1038 +1300]: > Also, AFAICS gethostid() only reads the first four bytes from the > file. Therefore using a symlink to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id would not > yield the desired result. It would reduce the entropy there down to > the first four characters from it. Mapping from binary data to the > character representation of it would be incorrect.
I suggest initialising the host ID from the UUID of the root filesystem… -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "if they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." -- thomas pynchon
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