ubiquity-kde install allows invalid hostnames

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I entered 12 into the hostname field and it was accepted. A simple check that the provided hostname is at least not all numbers would help reduce incidence of invalid hostnames (which results in lots of invalid bugs against postfix when it declines to configure itself with an invalid hostname).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 9 12:36:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100909)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

For what it is worth in Ubiquity version 2.9.15 using a number doesn't work unless you leave the hostname a number and then enter a password in the password field (see bug 928447). So people may be discouraged by the hostname already exists on the network message and change their hostname to NaN.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

Scott has informed me (on #861645) that this can now be closed.