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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-12 03:50:40 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-12 03:50:40 +0000
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Adding upstream version 256.upstream/256
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
- "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later -->
<refentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup"
@@ -43,24 +43,31 @@
ID will be acquired in the following fashion:</para>
<orderedlist>
- <listitem><para>If a valid D-Bus machine ID is already
- configured for the system, the D-Bus machine ID is copied and
- used to initialize the machine ID in
- <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>.</para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID
- is configured (via the <option>-uuid</option>
- option), this UUID is used to initialize the machine ID. The
- caller must ensure that the UUID passed is sufficiently unique
- and is different for every booted instance of the
- VM.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>If a valid machine ID is stored in <filename>/run/machine-id</filename>, the machine ID
+ is copied and used to initialize the machine ID in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>. This step is
+ skipped if <option>--root=</option> is specified or running in a chroot environment.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>If a valid D-Bus machine ID is already configured for the system, the D-Bus machine ID
+ is copied and used to initialize the machine ID in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>If a valid machine ID is provided through <option>system.machine_id</option> credential,
+ the machine ID is copied and used to initialize the machine ID in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>.
+ This step is skipped if <option>--root=</option> is specified or running in a chroot environment.
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID is configured (via the
+ <option>-uuid</option> option), this UUID is used to initialize the machine ID. The caller must ensure
+ that the UUID passed is sufficiently unique and is different for every booted instance of the VM. This
+ step is skipped if <option>--root=</option> is specified or running in a chroot environment.
+ </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Similarly, if run inside a Linux container environment and a UUID is configured for the
container, this is used to initialize the machine ID. For details, see the documentation of the <ulink
- url="https://systemd.io/CONTAINER_INTERFACE">Container Interface</ulink>.</para></listitem>
+ url="https://systemd.io/CONTAINER_INTERFACE">Container Interface</ulink>. This step is skipped if
+ <option>--root=</option> is specified or running in a chroot environment.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>Otherwise, a new ID is randomly
- generated.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Otherwise, a new ID is randomly generated.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>The <option>--commit</option> switch may be used to commit a
@@ -152,13 +159,13 @@
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
- <para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-commit.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry project='dbus'><refentrytitle>dbus-uuidgen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- </para>
+ <para><simplelist type="inline">
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-commit.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry project='dbus'><refentrytitle>dbus-uuidgen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ <member><citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></member>
+ </simplelist></para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>