[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#789960: openstack-debian-images: machine-id files are included in resulting images

[Sebastian Pipping]

Package: openstack-debian-images
Version: 1.4
Severity: normal

Hi!

I noticed that in the resulting images, files /etc/machine-id and /var/lib/dbus
/machine-id are included. So by default all machines booted from these images
get the same machine ID, or

# cat /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
cdb7f92199c748a7a20d33ab52974cbb
cdb7f92199c748a7a20d33ab52974cbb

in case of Debian 8.1.0 images. I propose removing those files during image
creation. I am not yet sure how happy a system is running without these files,
i.e. if re-creating them during first boot (and at which stage) is optional or
required.

I am looking forward to your feedback.

Best, S



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash