On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 8:14 AM Demi Marie Obenour
<demiobenour(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/20/22 01:13, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 1/20/22 06:16, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>> Deleting /var/lib/net-snmp/snmpd.conf means making the agent look like a
>>> new system, with new IDs, a renumbered interface table, and loss of
>>> SNMPv3 users.
>>
>> You're not going to wipe /var to do a reset casually - the idea would
>> be, this hardware isn't coming back to this environment. An easy
>> option with snapshots is you can define your own rollback point, which
>> includes environment specific configuration rather than the "wipe /var
>> and /etc" method of factory reset.
>
> Who exactly is the alleged user of the "factory reset" feature?
>
> Nobody in their right mind should think, or be lead to think, that 'rm
> -rf /some /dirs' is sufficient to wipe your possibly confidential data
> to a degree that you can just ship the hardware away.
>
> - Panu -
Agreed. “Factory reset” means either “I trust the secure erase function
on all of my disks” or “all the data that has ever hit the disk was
encrypted and I just securely deleted the encryption key”.
"Factory reset" means "reset to initial setup state". You're
talking
about "secure erase", which is very different and leaves the system
unusable.
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