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From: "Darryl L. Pierce" <dpierce@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:49:28 +0000
Subject: Re: Extracting system UUID...
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:39:13PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Ah, as Lennart just pointed out, you really don't want to use that, it
> can't be trusted on a lot of platforms.  Unless you don't mind having
> the same value for lots of different machines :)
>=20
> What do you want to use this value for?

It's going to be used to persistently and uniquely identify systems in a
network. The hostname can't be used since it's possible for a system to
come up with a different hostname within DHCP.=20

--=20
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