On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:14 PM Panu Matilainen <pmati...@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. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
