On Thu, 2019-08-08 at 15:20 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > This is related to the thread Generating new IDs for cloning, but is > probably OT for this list. I guess this is really a question for > systemd maintainers? Should I file a bug? > > The man page for machine-id says: > > This ID uniquely identifies the host. It should be considered > "confidential", and must not be exposed in untrusted environments, in > particular on the network. > > Why is the file mode 0666? Does it need to be non-root readable?
Mine is 0444, so that Chrome can read it. /s -Jim P.
