Unique Identifier

[Mike McGrath]

On 12/20/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:57 -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:20 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > Whats the most accepted way to create a unique identifier (key) for a
> > > host?  Collisions are fine if they are rare.
> >
> > What about the uuid package in extras?
> >
> > $ uuid
> > 7c098fe8-9053-11db-a2c8-001560c53ca8
>
> Why not /usr/bin/uuidgen from e2fsprogs? :-)
>
> Jeremy
>

Holy moly, thats amazing :-D  I'll have to get into the workings and
make sure its not basing anything off of hostname or ip or something
sensitive that could be reverse engineered.

          -Mike