replace uname -a informational string

Michael B. Eichorn ike at michaeleichorn.com
Fri Oct 23 17:43:03 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 09:08 +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> For security purposes, I need to replace the informations given by
> "uname -a"
> to hode the kernel build system, name et cetera.

I presume you intendend 'hide' here?

If you want to scrub a binaries of _all_ information about the building
system this is a problem Debian is actively working on called
'reproducible builds' but is not possible today.

https://reproducible.debian.net

If you want to hide the hostname, why not just build with a different
hostname set?

> 
> Is there a way to achieve this via setting some knobs in the process of
> a
> buildkernel?
> 
> Please CC me, I'm not subscriber of the list.
> 
> Kind regards and thanks in advance,
> 
> O. Hartmann
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