Comment 4 for bug 1869024

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote :

@jdstrand, asked in #systemd about @{PROC}/sys/kernel/random/boot_id and didn't get much information back. That said, https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/docs/RANDOM_SEEDS.md#systemds-use-of-random-numbers says:

> At various places systemd needs random bytes for temporary file name generation, UID allocation randomization, and similar.

As such, I believe this should be permitted.