There is not a parameter to automatically change it every time the system boots, that solution doesn’t work for machines that don’t reboot often and it breaks stuff in systemd as volunteered by many people talking about it online and as verified by me two weeks ago when I tried that.
What you said was that if a person was actually worried about it there is a kernel parameter to change it.
My reply was not intended to refute what you said but instead to illustrate how that approach doesn’t solve the problem of tracking and is not a workable solution for many systems and users.
I made that reply to help you and any reader understand the depth and breadth of the problem, not to start a fight.
There is not a parameter to automatically change it every time the system boots, that solution doesn’t work for machines that don’t reboot often and it breaks stuff in systemd as volunteered by many people talking about it online and as verified by me two weeks ago when I tried that.
I never said there was. There is however a kernel parameter to change the machine id, which I did say.
What you said was that if a person was actually worried about it there is a kernel parameter to change it.
My reply was not intended to refute what you said but instead to illustrate how that approach doesn’t solve the problem of tracking and is not a workable solution for many systems and users.
I made that reply to help you and any reader understand the depth and breadth of the problem, not to start a fight.