On 12/20/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:57 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:20 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Whats the most accepted way to create a unique identifier (key) for a
> > host? Collisions are fine if they are rare.
>
> What about the uuid package in extras?
>
> $ uuid
> 7c098fe8-9053-11db-a2c8-001560c53ca8
Why not /usr/bin/uuidgen from e2fsprogs? :-)
Jeremy
Holy moly, thats amazing :-D I'll have to get into the workings and
make sure its not basing anything off of hostname or ip or something
sensitive that could be reverse engineered.
-Mike
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