Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 09:06:50AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: [cut] > > I get 007f0100 on one jessie, 007f0101 on another jessie and 007f0101 > > on ascii. (Three different computers) > > > > The ascii install is on a laptop that has several installations. When I > > reboot it into jessie, I g

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hendrik Boom writes: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:34:28AM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: >> >> Oh, my . . . how fast and how hard Debian has fallen . . I am all for >> shining light into dark, dank places. What a terrific idea to track >> down all the offending packages that are "leaking" infor

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
fsmithred via Dng writes: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 16:27:10 +0100 > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 14:04:13 +0100, al3xu5 wrote in message >> <20190309130422.386f8f60...@vm6.ganeti.dyne.org>: >> > >> > I wonder... is it a "fixed" id for all Devuan installation as it >> > seems to be? >>

Re: [DNG] Request for testing of slim/experimental

2019-03-09 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 3/8/19 10:04 PM, Mark Hindley wrote: > Would people who are experiencing missing slim utmp entries mind trying again > with the following configuration added to /etc/slim.conf, please? > > sessionstop_cmd exec /usr/bin/sessreg -d -l $DISPLAY %user > sessionstart_cmd exec /usr/bin/sessreg -a -l

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
Antoine via Dng wrote on 10/3/19 10:00 am: > I tried changing the IPaddress on my loopback interface, but the > returned hostid didn't change. Try editing /etc/hosts and move your hostname entry to something else Ralph. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.

Re: [DNG] devuan.org website down

2019-03-09 Thread golinux
On 2019-03-09 16:53, aitor_czr wrote: On 9/3/19 23:43, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 22:15:46 +, Daniel wrote in message : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Devuan.org website seams to be down. I can't reach it, and neither can that checker page:https://www.isitdo

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Antoine via Dng
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 10:38:57AM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: On 2019-03-09 07:21, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 09/03/19 at 14:04, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > > > > > my id is 0x007f0101 > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > my id is 0x007f0101 > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > my id is 0x007f0101 >

Re: [DNG] devuan.org website down

2019-03-09 Thread aitor_czr
On 9/3/19 23:43, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 22:15:46 +, Daniel wrote in message : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Devuan.org website seams to be down. I can't reach it, and neither can that checker page:https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/devuan.org.html Could som

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 09/03/2019 à 21:48, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 18:12:55 +0100, Didier wrote in message <42982bbd-6ccc-6ed4-2bcc-4d969319c...@in2p3.fr>:     I find it comic that dbus, which is a middleware restricted to a single host, builds a unique id to identify this host. We know that th

Re: [DNG] devuan.org website down

2019-03-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 22:15:46 +, Daniel wrote in message : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Devuan.org website seams to be down. I can't reach it, and neither can > that checker page: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/devuan.org.html > > Could someone fix that please?

[DNG] devuan.org website down

2019-03-09 Thread Daniel Abrecht via Dng
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Devuan.org website seams to be down. I can't reach it, and neither can that checker page: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/devuan.org.html Could someone fix that please? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEZT8xKpcJ1eXNKSM1cASjafdLVoEFAlyE

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 11:01:43AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:34:28AM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > Oh, my . . . how fast and how hard Debian has fallen . . I am all for > > shining light into dark, dank places. What a terrific idea to track > > down all the offe

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 18:12:55 +0100, Didier wrote in message <42982bbd-6ccc-6ed4-2bcc-4d969319c...@in2p3.fr>: >     I find it comic that dbus, which is a middleware restricted to a > single host, builds a unique id to identify this host. We know that > the systemd team likes to catch up everythin

Re: [DNG] Request for testing of slim/experimental

2019-03-09 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 08:37:03 +0100 aitor_czr wrote: > My latest image of gnuinos beowulf (not uploaded yet) waits for a > keyboard press event during live boots. If openssh-server is installed, it's waiting for entropy. Install haveged and make sure it starts before ssh. I made a modified live-

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Didier Kryn
    I find it comic that dbus, which is a middleware restricted to a single host, builds a unique id to identify this host. We know that the systemd team likes to catch up everything to control it from their blob, even if it looks like pure crap. This makes me think the intention is probably no

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
Hello > > B) I am more concerned about the other part, where code is > > known to phone home, but the developers or packagers > > have decided that this is fine. The examples range from popcon > > to systemd's resolver (which I am told falls back on to google > > at 8.8.8.8) to chromium or firefo

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 09/03/2019 à 17:25, goli...@dyne.org a écrit : On 2019-03-09 03:03, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 09/03/2019 à 09:34, goli...@dyne.org a écrit : I'd recommend adding an inotify rule to record which processes look at these files, and publishing this - here.     Unfortunately inotify doesn't tell wh

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread golinux
On 2019-03-09 07:21, Alessandro Selli wrote: On 09/03/19 at 14:04, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: my id is 0x007f0101 [...] my id is 0x007f0101 [...] my id is 0x007f0101 using the `hostid` command, I have (Devuan ASCII): $ hostid 007f0101 which is the same value!!! I wonder... is it a "fix

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 16:27:10 +0100 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 14:04:13 +0100, al3xu5 wrote in message > <20190309130422.386f8f60...@vm6.ganeti.dyne.org>: > > > > I wonder... is it a "fixed" id for all Devuan installation as it > > seems to be? > > ..yes and no and no etc, I have:

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread golinux
On 2019-03-09 03:03, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 09/03/2019 à 09:34, goli...@dyne.org a écrit : I'd recommend adding an inotify rule to record which processes look at these files, and publishing this - here.     Unfortunately inotify doesn't tell which process accessed the file )~: ___

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:34:28AM -0600, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > > Oh, my . . . how fast and how hard Debian has fallen . . I am all for > shining light into dark, dank places. What a terrific idea to track > down all the offending packages that are "leaking" information and then > publish an

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 14:04:13 +0100, al3xu5 wrote in message <20190309130422.386f8f60...@vm6.ganeti.dyne.org>: > Il giorno sabato 09/03/2019 13:25:29 +0100 > Alessandro Selli ha scritto: > > > [cut] > > > > Maybe your system is different to mine, but try compiling the > > > below and find out

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:28:10PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: [cut] > > > > > > I wonder... is it a "fixed" id for all Devuan installation as it seems to > > > be? > > > > > > And if it is so,is it correct that it is? > > > > How intriguing! > > I get the same value on a Debian Wheezy machi

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 09 March 2019 at 14:21:30, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 09/03/19 at 14:04, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > >> my id is 0x007f0101 > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> my id is 0x007f0101 > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> my id is 0x007f0101 > > > > using the `hostid` command, I have (Devuan ASCII): > >

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 09/03/19 at 14:04, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > >> my id is 0x007f0101 >> >> [...] >> >> my id is 0x007f0101 >> >> [...] >> >> my id is 0x007f0101 >> > using the `hostid` command, I have (Devuan ASCII): > > $ hostid > 007f0101 > > which is the same value!!! > > I wonder... is it a "fixed" id for

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno sabato 09/03/2019 13:25:29 +0100 Alessandro Selli ha scritto: > [cut] > > Maybe your system is different to mine, but try compiling the below > > and find out for yourself: > > > > #include > > #include > > > > int main() > > { > > int id; > > > > id = gethostid(); > > > > pri

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread al3xu5 / dotcommon
Il giorno sabato 09/03/2019 10:54:08 +0100 KatolaZ ha scritto: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 09:05:20AM +0100, marc wrote: > > [cut] > > > [cut] > > [cut] > > In any case, there are dozens of ways to identify a host and a user > with very good accuracy, even across reboots and even when it travels

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 01:11:31PM +0100, marc wrote: [cut] > > B) I am more concerned about the other part, where code is > known to phone home, but the developers or packagers > have decided that this is fine. The examples range from popcon > to systemd's resolver (which I am told falls back o

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
On 09/03/19 at 12:46, marc wrote: >>> So you are correct that gethostid has been around for a while, >>> but this call returns a 32bit number, typically the IP. >> ?? No, it returns a value that's unique to the local machine even if it >> was not configured on any network.?? Plus, the IP can change

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
> Dear marc, > > unwanted "calls-home" are normally found and disclosed if the software > is free, so I really don't think this is a problem. Asking the > development team of a distribution with 50k+ packages to guarantee > that nothing ever uses user information for unwanted means is just > plain

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
> > So you are correct that gethostid has been around for a while, > > but this call returns a 32bit number, typically the IP. > > ?? No, it returns a value that's unique to the local machine even if it > was not configured on any network.?? Plus, the IP can change, but the > hostid is supposed to

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 09:05:20 +0100, marc wrote in message <20190309080520.GA32402@localhost.localdomain>: > So instead of adding crontab rules to obfuscate the ids, ...er, say "to flood them with useless IDs," if you want my agreement. > I'd recommend adding an inotify rule to record which pro

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 08:21:18 +0100, Alessandro wrote in message : > On 09/03/19 at 00:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..both valid improvements, me, I might go: " * * * * * root \ > > fortune &&date |md5sum |cut -d" " -f-1 >/etc/machine-id |tee \ > > >/dev/null 2>&1 " to keep this lightweight

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il 09/03/19 11:16, marc ha scritto: >> Mark, I think you are probably shooting the wrong bird here. Host ids >> have been around for the best part of the last 40 years in the unix >> world. And I am not talking about proprietary unix. The syscalls >> gethostid/sethostid were introduced in 4.2BSD (

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 11:16:51AM +0100, marc wrote: [cut] > > I also agree with your sentiment that free and open source > software is necessary to track down information leakage. But it > seems it may be necessary but not sufficient - what one also > needs is a distribution which makes it cle

Re: [DNG] Request for testing of slim/experimental

2019-03-09 Thread aitor_czr
Hi, On 9/3/19 8:37, aitor_czr wrote: My latest image of gnuinos beowulf (not uploaded yet) waits for a keyboard press event during live boots. I'm still not sure if this is related with the new version of slim. I'll check it soon. Another possible cause might be the non configured live-config s

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
> Mark, I think you are probably shooting the wrong bird here. Host ids > have been around for the best part of the last 40 years in the unix > world. And I am not talking about proprietary unix. The syscalls > gethostid/sethostid were introduced in 4.2BSD (ca. 1983), at Berkeley, > and are suppose

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Alessandro Selli
Il 09/03/19 09:53, Didier Kryn ha scritto: > Le 09/03/2019 à 00:28, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : >> I might go: " * * * * * root \ >> fortune &&date |md5sum |cut -d" " -f-1 >/etc/machine-id |tee \ >>   >/dev/null 2>&1  " to keep this lightweight in my end and not >> in the other end. :o) > >     Arnt, C

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 09:05:20AM +0100, marc wrote: [cut] > > But what really blows me away is that these ids exist on > Debian to begin with. I had been under the assumption that > free systems are built according to the needs and desires > of their users, and few users go "what I really need

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
> Le 09/03/2019 ?? 10:03, Didier Kryn a ??crit??: > >Le 09/03/2019 ?? 09:34, goli...@dyne.org a ??crit??: > >>I'd recommend adding an inotify rule to record which processes > >>look at these files, and publishing this - here. > > > >Unfortunately inotify doesn't tell which process accessed the file

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2019 Sat, 9 Mar 10:03:59 +0100 Didier Kryn scripsit: > Le 09/03/2019 à 09:34, goli...@dyne.org a écrit : > > I'd recommend adding an inotify rule to record which processes > > look at these files, and publishing this - here. > >     Unfortunately inotify doesn't tell which process ac

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 09/03/2019 à 10:03, Didier Kryn a écrit : Le 09/03/2019 à 09:34, goli...@dyne.org a écrit : I'd recommend adding an inotify rule to record which processes look at these files, and publishing this - here.     Unfortunately inotify doesn't tell which process accessed the file )~:     But f

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 09/03/2019 à 09:34, goli...@dyne.org a écrit : I'd recommend adding an inotify rule to record which processes look at these files, and publishing this - here.     Unfortunately inotify doesn't tell which process accessed the file )~: ___ Dng mail

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 09/03/2019 à 00:28, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : I might go: " * * * * * root \ fortune &&date |md5sum |cut -d" " -f-1 >/etc/machine-id |tee \ >/dev/null 2>&1 " to keep this lightweight in my end and not in the other end. :o)     Arnt, Could you be less cryptic please?     I found fortune in p

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread golinux
On 2019-03-09 02:05, marc wrote: Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no): > ..my /etc/cron.d/machine-id: > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin > > # ..a new /etc/machine-id every minute... ;o) > * * * * * root date |md5sum |cut -d" " -f-1 >/etc/machine-id |tee > >/dev/null 2>&1 _Very_ nice sol

Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id

2019-03-09 Thread marc
> Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no): > > > ..my /etc/cron.d/machine-id: > > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin > > > > # ..a new /etc/machine-id every minute... ;o) > > * * * * * root date |md5sum |cut -d" " -f-1 >/etc/machine-id |tee > > >/dev/null 2>&1 > > _Very_ nice solution. I thin