possible to use a number for your computer's name

Bug #928447 reported by Brian Murray
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Expired
Medium
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Bug Description

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.

Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

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)."

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: ubi-usersetup
tags: added: precise
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Tobin Davis (gruemaster) wrote :

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.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

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.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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