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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<!--
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This file is part of systemd.
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Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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Lesser General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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-->
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<refentry id="machine-id">
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<refentryinfo>
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<title>machine-id</title>
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<productname>systemd</productname>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<contrib>Developer</contrib>
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<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
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<surname>Poettering</surname>
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<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>machine-id</refname>
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<refpurpose>Local machine ID configuration file</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
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<para><filename>/etc/machine-id</filename></para>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Description</title>
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<para>The <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> file contains the unique machine ID of the local
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system that is set during installation. The machine ID is a single newline-terminated,
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hexadecimal, 32-character, lowercase ID. When decoded from hexadecimal, this corresponds to a
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16-byte/128-bit value.</para>
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<para>The machine ID is usually generated from a random source
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during system installation and stays constant for all subsequent
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boots. Optionally, for stateless systems, it is generated during
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runtime at early boot if it is found to be empty.</para>
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<para>The machine ID does not change based on local or network configuration or when hardware is
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replaced. Due to this and its greater length, it is a more useful replacement for the
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<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>gethostid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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call that POSIX specifies.</para>
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<para>This machine ID adheres to the same format and logic as the
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D-Bus machine ID.</para>
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<para>This ID uniquely identifies the host. It should be considered "confidential", and must not
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be exposed in untrusted environments, in particular on the network. If a stable unique
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identifier that is tied to the machine is needed for some application, the machine ID or any
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part of it must not be used directly. Instead the machine ID should be hashed with a
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cryptographic, keyed hash function, using a fixed, application-specific key. That way the ID
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will be properly unique, and derived in a constant way from the machine ID but there will be no
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way to retrieve the original machine ID from the application-specific one.</para>
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<para>The
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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tool may be used by installer tools to initialize the machine ID
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at install time. Use
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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to initialize it on mounted (but not booted) system images.</para>
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<para>The machine-id may also be set, for example when network
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booting, by setting the <varname>systemd.machine_id=</varname>
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kernel command line parameter or passing the option
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<option>--machine-id=</option> to systemd. A machine-id may not
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be set to all zeros.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Relation to OSF UUIDs</title>
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<para>Note that the machine ID historically is not an OSF UUID as
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defined by <ulink url="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122">RFC
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4122</ulink>, nor a Microsoft GUID; however, starting with systemd
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v30, newly generated machine IDs do qualify as v4 UUIDs.</para>
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<para>In order to maintain compatibility with existing
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installations, an application requiring a UUID should decode the
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machine ID, and then apply the following operations to turn it
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into a valid OSF v4 UUID. With <literal>id</literal> being an
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unsigned character array:</para>
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<programlisting>/* Set UUID version to 4 --- truly random generation */
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id[6] = (id[6] & 0x0F) | 0x40;
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/* Set the UUID variant to DCE */
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id[8] = (id[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80;</programlisting>
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<para>(This code is inspired by
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<literal>generate_random_uuid()</literal> of
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<filename>drivers/char/random.c</filename> from the Linux kernel
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sources.)</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>History</title>
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<para>The simple configuration file format of
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<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> originates in the
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<filename>/var/lib/dbus/machine-id</filename> file introduced by
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D-Bus. In fact, this latter file might be a symlink to
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<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>.</para>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1>
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<title>See Also</title>
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<para>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>gethostid</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>hostname</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-info</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>os-release</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-id128</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_id128_get_machine</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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