Re: RFC: Change the default hostname for Fedora 26+

[Ms Sanchez <bhkohane@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/16 15:50, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:13:48PM -0000, fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I like Fedora-XXXXXXXX for default hostname. If I don't care to set a hostname it would be an ok hostname for my machine. I would however like if the hostname setting would be more prominent in the installer. Possibly generating based on my name along the lines of:  fredriks-laptop.rambris.lan

Those are two separate issues really:

Making the choice it more prominent is probably not necessary, if we
provide a nice default. Although it probably wouldn't hurt. The hostname
could be displayed in the summary or maybe the user creation dialogue
('Create user "user1@Fedora-123345"'?).

Generating the name from the user name matches what Windows does, but
it seems like a bigger privacy leak that the randomly generated
"Fedora" name. It'd probably be less unique globally, while being more
personally identifiable in small environments. This means that it
wouldn't solve the freeipa case. So "Fedora-XXXXXX" sounds like a better
tradeoff.

Zbyszek
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To me, the default hostname should be fedora-xx.  There are thousands if not millions of computers using Fedora so it's quite anonymous.
I don't think copying Windows behaviour is a good idea, they aren't known for their security....


Cheers,
Sylvia

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