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<refentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup">
<refentryinfo>
<title>systemd-machine-id-setup</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<surname>Poettering</surname>
<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd-machine-id-setup</refname>
<refpurpose>Initialize the machine ID in <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename></refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command> may
be used by system installer tools to initialize the
machine ID stored in
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time
with a randomly generated ID. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more information about this file.</para>
<para>This tool will execute no operation if
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> is already
initialized.</para>
<para>If a valid D-Bus machine ID is already
configured for the system the D-Bus machine ID is
copied and used to initialize the machine ID in
<filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>.</para>
<para>If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID
is passed via the <option>-uuid</option> option this
UUID is used to initialize the machine ID instead of a
randomly generated one. The caller must ensure that the
UUID passed is sufficiently unique and is different
for every booted instanced of the VM.</para>
<para>Similar, if run inside a Linux container
environment and a UUID is set for the container this
is used to initialize the machine ID. For details see
the documentation of the <ulink
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface">Container
Interface</ulink>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>This tool does not take any options or arguments.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Exit status</title>
<para>On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
code otherwise.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-uuidgen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>