Bug 1447291 – rhel-7: most images share same /etc/machine-id (ec2 was exception)

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Bug 1447291 - rhel-7: most images share same /etc/machine-id (ec2 was exception)

Summary:	rhel-7: most images share same /etc/machine-id (ec2 was exception)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	releng (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.4
Hardware:	Unspecified Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Lubos Kocman
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Reported:	2017-05-02 06:31 EDT by Lubos Kocman
Modified:	2017-08-01 13:39 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2017-08-01 13:39:27 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2017:1850	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	redhat-release update	2017-08-01 14:03:01 EDT

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Description Lubos Kocman 2017-05-02 06:31:11 EDT

Description of problem:

This is request to zero /etc/machine-id file in order to force systemd to rebuild machine-id on first boot. Since we did create single image with static machine-id and distributed it across all of our customers.

Comment 2 Lubos Kocman 2017-05-02 06:32:07 EDT

http://git.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/git/rcm/kickstarts.git/commit/rhel7?id=873a894519c46fa6a0f15318f2ee1e6d33ffe88f

Comment 3 Lubos Kocman 2017-05-02 06:35:51 EDT

Affected images server-rt, kvm guest-image. Fix was actually backported from ec2

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 13:39:27 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:1850

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