systemd-machine-id-setup

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## Name

systemd-machine-id-setup — Initialize the machine ID in /etc/machine-id

## Synopsis

`systemd-machine-id-setup`

## Description

systemd-machine-id-setup may be used by system installer tools to initialize the machine ID stored in `/etc/machine-id` at install time with a randomly generated ID. See machine-id(5) for more information about this file.

This tool will execute no operation if `/etc/machine-id` is already initialized.

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 `/etc/machine-id`.

If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID is passed via the `-uuid` 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.

Similarly, 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 Container Interface.

## Options

The following options are understood:

`--root=`root``

  Takes a directory path as an argument. All paths will be prefixed with the given alternate `root` path, including config search paths.

`-h`, `--help`

  Print a short help text and exit.

`--version`

  Print a short version string and exit.

## Exit status

On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

## See Also

systemd(1), machine-id(5), dbus-uuidgen(1)