Bug 525242

Summary: Yast Network-settings cannot change hostname if network-manager is running
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Michal Zugec <mzugec>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Milestone 4   
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Hardware: 32bit   
OS: Other   
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Description Atri Bhattacharya 2009-07-25 07:15:37 UTC 
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According to

http://hedgehogpainter.livejournal.com/3916.html

it should be possible to set the hostname from yast network settings module despite the pop-up warning. however as of Milestone4 this does not work. After setting the hostname of my choice from the concerned module, I still cannot ssh from remote computer into my computer with this hostname.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set hostname from network settings module in yast
2.Save settings.
3.Try ssh from remote computer using set hostname, does not work.



I am using dhcp, by the way.
Comment 1 Michal Zugec 2009-08-07 08:11:42 UTC 
 - with YaST you can configure sysconfig configuration. NetworkManager don't accept/use all that settings, so I can't do anything and as I know, it won't be implemented in NM

- anyway, it won't solve your problem. When you change your hostname, all other machines wouldn't know it. This is something for DNS server