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. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
