X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=clone%2Fvirt-sysprep.pod;h=5cab3eba2d0a89af2521c895109cabbf48a19469;hb=be47b66c3033105a2b880dbc10bfc2b163b7eafe;hp=ecd500f4c45c2c63e27c645ae70119c1916b7e4f;hpb=42f3abe42d601c5d0a1521a36db54dea705a03c7;p=libguestfs.git diff --git a/clone/virt-sysprep.pod b/clone/virt-sysprep.pod index ecd500f..5cab3eb 100755 --- a/clone/virt-sysprep.pod +++ b/clone/virt-sysprep.pod @@ -171,6 +171,10 @@ Future versions of virt-sysprep may add more operations. If you are using virt-sysprep and want predictable behaviour, specify only the operations that you want to have enabled. +=head2 cron-spool + +Remove user at-jobs and cron-jobs. + =head2 dhcp-client-state Remove DHCP client leases. @@ -191,6 +195,10 @@ changed to C. Remove many log files. +=head2 mail-spool + +Remove email from the local mail spool directory. + =head2 net-hwaddr Remove HWADDR (hard-coded MAC address) configuration. For Fedora and @@ -201,7 +209,7 @@ Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this is removed from C files. Write some random bytes from the host into the random seed file of the guest. -See C below. +See L below. =head2 rhn-systemid @@ -236,11 +244,19 @@ old MAC address occupies the old name (eg. eth0), this means the fresh MAC address is assigned to a new name (eg. eth1) and this is usually undesirable. Erasing the udev persistent net rules avoids this. +=head2 utmp + +Remove the utmp file. + +This records who is currently logged in on a machine. In modern Linux +distros it is stored in a ramdisk and hence not part of the virtual +machine's disk, but it was stored on disk in older distros. + =head2 yum-uuid Remove the yum UUID. -yum creates a fresh UUID the next time it runs when it notices that +Yum creates a fresh UUID the next time it runs when it notices that the original UUID has been erased. =head1 COPYING AND CLONING @@ -412,12 +428,10 @@ thus is ideal for cloning guests from a template. =head1 SECURITY -Although virt-sysprep removes some sensitive information from -the guest, it does not pretend to remove all of it. You should -examine the L above, and the implementation of -the operations in the shell script. - -You should also examine the guest afterwards. +Although virt-sysprep removes some sensitive information from the +guest, it does not pretend to remove all of it. You should examine +the L above, and the implementation of the operations in +the shell script. You should also examine the guest afterwards. Sensitive files are simply removed. The data they contained may still exist on the disk, easily recovered with a hex editor or undelete @@ -504,4 +518,4 @@ GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software -Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. +Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.