Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking
Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking
Posted Jan 16, 2019 14:06 UTC (Wed) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)In reply to: Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking by sgallagh
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As the plugin pings each 300 seconds, it is straightforward to count users behind NAT from the frequency of pings per IP address.
Posted Jan 16, 2019 14:37 UTC (Wed)
by excors (subscriber, #95769)
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Fedora, UUIDs, and user tracking
That doesn't give you the user count, it gives you the user count multiplied by the average fractional uptime of each user. Servers might have an uptime close to 100%, but laptops etc are much more unpredictable since people suspend and resume them all the time, so you still can't determine the user count.