Systemd/src/random-seed
Lennart Poettering 8ba12aef04 random-seed: write the machine ID into /dev/urandom as well
This is some extra protection for sloppy "golden master" systems, where
images are duplicated many times but the random seed is not
deleted (or reset for each copy). That golden master systems have to
reset /etc/machine-id is better known, and easier to notice (as having
the same ID will result in address conflicts and suchlike quite often).
Hence let's write the machine ID into /dev/urandom, in case it has been
initialized and unlikely the stored random seed has been provisioned
differently on each image.

Note that we don't credit the entropy either way, hence in the case
there's a cycle of a) generating the machine-id early at boot and b)
writing it back into /dev/urandom late at boot it shouldn't matter. It's
never going to make things worse, just in a few cases better.
2018-08-20 12:42:28 +02:00
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random-seed.c random-seed: write the machine ID into /dev/urandom as well 2018-08-20 12:42:28 +02:00