Am Mittwoch, den 20.12.2006, 12:26 -0600 schrieb Mike McGrath: > 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. Why not using the kernel random proc interface for that ? cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid Andreas > > -Mike -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
