Should have ability to name your own device (for DHCP purposes)

Bug #1522259 reported by Matthew Exon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
Wishlist
Bill Filler
Ubuntu UX
New
Undecided
Unassigned
ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

At the moment the name of the device is "ubuntu-phablet", or at least that's what it is on my MX4. I should first mention that "phablet" is a stupid word, but it's also a strange choice of name. I could understand "ubuntu-mx4" so that it's different for each model, and I could understand "ubuntu-touch" just naming all touch devices the same thing. Splitting into phone / tablet / "phablet" is weird. Note that the bluetooth name (which I'm not allowed to change) is "MX4 Ubuntu Edition".

But anyway. This name gets reported during DHCP so that becomes your phone's network name. When I ssh to my phone I have to type "ssh ubuntu-phablet.znh". If there were multiple Ubuntu devices in my house that would be confusing. I should be able to change it to something more memorable and distinctive.

Better would be to allow the user to choose a name and have that used throughout: network name, bluetooth name, network filesystems etc.

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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

This seems like a reasonable request although admittedly a bit advanced.
I am able to set the name using hostnamectl so seems a simple thing to support.

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
milestone: none → backlog
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

As to which panel to place it on, Phone or About this phone both seem logical.

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