Re: F36 Change: Authselect: Move State Files to /etc (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 8:14 AM Demi Marie Obenour
<demiobenour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 1/20/22 01:13, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On 1/20/22 06:16, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >>> Deleting /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf means making the agent look like a
> >>> new system, with new IDs, a renumbered interface table, and loss of
> >>> SNMPv3 users.
> >>
> >> You're not going to wipe /var to do a reset casually - the idea would
> >> be, this hardware isn't coming back to this environment. An easy
> >> option with snapshots is you can define your own rollback point, which
> >> includes environment specific configuration rather than the "wipe /var
> >> and /etc" method of factory reset.
> >
> > Who exactly is the alleged user of the "factory reset" feature?
> >
> > Nobody in their right mind should think, or be lead to think, that 'rm
> > -rf /some /dirs' is sufficient to wipe your possibly confidential data
> > to a degree that you can just ship the hardware away.
> >
> >       - Panu -
>
> Agreed.  “Factory reset” means either “I trust the secure erase function
> on all of my disks” or “all the data that has ever hit the disk was
> encrypted and I just securely deleted the encryption key”.

"Factory reset" means "reset to initial setup state". You're talking
about "secure erase", which is very different and leaves the system
unusable.



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