Dear D1rs, following the discussion about /var/lib/dbus/machine-id, you find a new version of dbus in unstable and beowulf. The new version is 1.12.12-1+devuan2, and it should hit pkgmaster in the next 10 minutes.
I have added a variable "IDTYPE" in /etc/default/dbus which is set by default to "RANDOM". This will result in /var/lib/dbus/machine-id being re-generated at boot time (and only at boot time). If IDTYPE is set to anything else, /var/lib/dbus/machine-id is preserved across subsequent boots. In this way, the sysadmin can choose to have the dbus machine-id persist across boots, if they like, but the default beaviour will be to have it re-generated at each boot. Please test it out and report any issue. There is an open bug (#304) on bugs.devuan.org. Use that one for comments/updates please. Regarding /etc/machine-id: it looks like it is installed only by systemd, so any devuan installation which originally was a Debian might probably have it. My guess is that it should be possible to remove it altogether. If any application wants it (somebody mentioned chromium) you could replace it with a symlink to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id. I guess replacing /etc/machine-id every 10 minutes to avoid chromium tracking you is not particularly smart: I am pretty sure chromium would just read it when it starts, and then keep it in RAM, so you might need to restart chromium every 10 minutes as well. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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