Linux Machine ID

Get the unique machine ID on Linux.

This script has been tested with:

• Ubuntu >= 18.04
• Debian >= 10
• Fedora >= 30

For more information on Linux machine IDs see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html

Installation

Quick Install

curl --silent https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PHLAK/linux-machine-id/master/machine-id \
| sudo install /dev/stdin /usr/local/bin/machine-id

Manual Installation

1. Download or clone this repo

2. Copy machine-id to a location on your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)

3. Ensure machine-id is executable

   chmod +x /usr/local/bin/machine-id

Usage

After following the instructions above you can run machine-id from a terminal to output a unique machine ID in various formats.

$ machine-id
8654c188be4386abe2ae2c0e0a682681f4cf2b33d71ac6cb8f6fba50d09735c8

By default the command returns a sha256 hash of the device ID found in /etc/machine-id. You can use the --raw option to return the actual machine ID and the --short option to get the short version of the ID.

Usage: machine-id [OPTION]...
Get the machine's unique ID.

OPTIONS:
-h, --help     Print this help dialogue
-r, --raw      Retuns the raw machine ID
-s, --short    Return a short (7 character) ID

Changelog

A list of changes can be found on the GitHub Releases page.

Troubleshooting

Please report bugs to the GitHub Issue Tracker.

Copyright

This project is licensed under the MIT License.