replace uname -a informational string

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:54:24 +0200
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Am Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:45:25 -0400
> "Michael B. Eichorn" <ike at michaeleichorn.com> schrieb:
> 
> 
> First of all: Thank you very much for your concerns and answers.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Because it is not only the hostname, uname reveals the target host,
> date and OS version.
> 
> In our case, the image ist built on a dedicated host for a security
> appliabce based on NanoBSD and I'd like to hide the OS type, the OS
> name, the build box' name and the build date. 
> 
why not replace uname at the source level then?

Erich