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How to Reset Identity on RHEL 8
nomorespice edited this page Dec 10, 2020
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This procedure will guide you through the identity reset process on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 server.
This document assumes that:
- you installed the RHEL 8 x64 Operating System according to How to install RHEL 8 via kickstart
- you are performing these tasks as root
- you are performing these tasks in order, as some tasks require others to be completed first
Be sure to modify the following to customize for your environment:
- Red Hat subscription USER
- Red Hat subscription PASSWORD
subscription-manager clean
/usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf
/bin/rm -f /var/log/*-???????? /var/log/*.gz
/bin/rm -f /var/log/dmesg.old
/bin/rm -rf /var/log/anaconda
/bin/cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp
/bin/cat /dev/null > /var/log/lastlog
/bin/rm -rf /tmp/*
/bin/rm -rf /var/tmp/*
/bin/rm -f /etc/ssh/*key*
/bin/rm -f ~root/.bash_history
unset HISTFILE
/bin/rm -rf ~root/.ssh/
/bin/rm -f ~root/anaconda-ks.cfg
/bin/rm /etc/machine-id
systemd-machine-id-setup
/bin/rm /etc/insights-client/machine-id
subscription-manager register --username=USER --password='PASSWORD'
subscription-manager subscribe --auto
insights-client --register
dnf -y clean all
reboot