machineid

Documentation

Overview

Package machineid reads the identifier the operating system keeps for the computer it runs on: `kern.uuid` on macOS, /etc/machine-id on Linux, the registry's MachineGuid on Windows. Each is a UUID the OS assigns once and keeps across reboots, networks and hardware changes.

The value is an input to agentlab's usage-signal user identifier and is hashed before it goes anywhere (internal/telemetry, docs/telemetry.md "Usage data"); nothing here sends or stores it.

Index

• func ID() (string, bool)

Functions

func ID

func ID() (string, bool)

ID returns this computer's identifier in one canonical spelling, or false when the OS has none to give: a container without /etc/machine-id, a Windows without the registry value, an OS with no source at all. Callers fall back rather than fail.