Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc…

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Author: intrigeri
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To: The Tails public development discussion list, Maxim Kammerer
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions
Hi,

adrelanos wrote (20 Jan 2013 10:41:45 GMT) :
> Wouldn't it be a fine (and easy to implement) improvement to set those
> values to a shared value telling as little as possible?


I agree. Thanks for proposing it.

Adding Maxim to the list of recipients (Maxim: in case you don't read
tails-dev anymore, please go read the email I'm replying to in the
list archives :)

> Proposal:
> Tails, Whonix, Liberte Linux and whoever wants to join uses:


> username: user


ACK

> /etc/hostname: user
> /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 user.localdomain user


The use of "user" as a hostname seems totally counter-intuitive to me.
How about using "host" or "hostname" instead?

My proposal would then be:

username: user
/etc/hostname: host
/etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 host.localdomain host

Cheers,
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