On 11/08/2016 01:23 PM, Eric Griffith wrote: > On Nov 8, 2016, at 12:43, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Or, if it is determined that this is important to do, can we try for >> something like "fedora-UUID" as a default hostname, so it's at least >> unique? Of course, the problem with that becomes that you end up with >> stupidly-long names on the default command prompt, which looks ugly. But >> perhaps it would be okay to just change the default command prompt not to >> show the full hostname (or auto-truncate it or something) > > What about $CompVendor-$SerialNumber ? Serial numbers should be unique, and I > thought they were accessible to the OS via the firmware. The problem with that approach is that it won't work for a virtual machine, unless all of the virtual machine technologies started generating serial numbers for their virtual clients. So we would need to have a fallback solution in that case no matter what. At that point, I'm not sure there's value in having a special case for physical hardware.
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