Anonymized access log from a fedora mirror

[Patrick Uiterwijk]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:01:06PM +0200, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:21:07AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > How do we know that any particular person who installed yum installed
> > anything else? Are you using IP address to try and see what each IP
> > user installed? I can think of... a lot of ways that won't work. ;)
> 
> The main issue I see is NAT of course, there are couple of scenarios
> which will generate incorrect data. But the main goal is to find
> clusters in data and I hope majority of the log records will be one IP =
> one user.

Another issue I could see is laptops: as they are often online on other places then home, and Fedora doesn't consider your location before warning you for updates, they might install updates or new packages from multiple IP addresses, and there would be no way to tell that's still the same user.

Patrick
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux)
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=5qsV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----