possible to use a number for your computer's name

[Brian Murray]

In the "Who are you?" screen it is possible to enter a number for "Your computer's name" if you follow these steps.

1) Enter your name
2) Enter '99' as your computer's name
3) Observe 'hostname already exists on the network'
4) Enter your username
5) Start typing in the password field
6) Observe a green check by the hostname / 99 / your computer's name

I discovered this using ubiquity version 2.9.15 from Precise Alpha 2.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

In bug 634215 the reporter indicates that having a number for a hostname interferes with some other software.

"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)."

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

I can confirm that it is considered valid by oem-config (same code base) on the 20120207.1 daily-preinstalled arm images with oem-config (2.9.16).

I entered 1 for the computer name, system happily accepted it.

[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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]