On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:14 PM Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com> 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.
The thread is about an Authselect change. I think interesting but
unrelated discussions should go in a dedicated thread.
Resetting a computer's OS to default settings is not the same thing as
media sanitization. One is strictly about reverting to default
configuration. The other is about removing latent data from the media.
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Chris Murphy