Author: adrelanos Date: To: tails-dev Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Let's share username,
/etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions
intrigeri: > 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
Thanks.
> (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.
Of course.
> How about using "host" or "hostname" instead?
Absolutely.
> My proposal would then be:
>
> username: user
> /etc/hostname: host
> /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 host.localdomain host
