Bug 420770

Summary: Default Hostname
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Andrew Joakimsen <andrew>
Component: InstallationAssignee: E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: chrubis
Version: Final   
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OS: openSUSE 11.0   
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Description Andrew Joakimsen 2008-08-27 17:41:27 UTC 
When doing an installation with "automatically configure" option (which is the default the user is not prompted to enter a hostname. Instead the hostname will be linux-[random sequence of characters]. I propose that instead of using a random sequnce of numbers the hostname be something more descriptive, perhaps linux-[configured username]
Comment 1 Cyril Hrubis 2008-09-01 14:06:08 UTC 
IHMO this is workaround to some hostname related problems, moving to yast2 maintainers, they should know.
Comment 2 Katarina Machalkova 2008-09-01 15:01:41 UTC 
The random sequence of characters was introduced mainly because of possible integration of such computer into Microsoft ActiveDirectory domain. On joining AD, if another client with the same hostname exists on the current network, its settings are overriden with the settings of the newly joined one, which is certainly not desirable.

Hence, to minimize the probability of hostname collisions, hostname proposed by default contains 4 random characters. The needed degree of randomness could be hardly achieved if usernames (or any other 'vocabulary' words) were used instead.