On 11/08/2016 01:23 PM, Eric Griffith wrote:
On Nov 8, 2016, at 12:43, Stephen Gallagher
<sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Or, if it is determined that this is important to do, can we try for
> something like "fedora-UUID" as a default hostname, so it's at least
> unique? Of course, the problem with that becomes that you end up with
> stupidly-long names on the default command prompt, which looks ugly. But
> perhaps it would be okay to just change the default command prompt not to
> show the full hostname (or auto-truncate it or something)
What about $CompVendor-$SerialNumber ? Serial numbers should be unique, and I
thought they were accessible to the OS via the firmware.
The problem with that approach is that it won't work for a virtual machine,
unless all of the virtual machine technologies started generating serial numbers
for their virtual clients.
So we would need to have a fallback solution in that case no matter what. At
that point, I'm not sure there's value in having a special case for physical
hardware.