RE: Changing hostname breaks login

[Thern Nathan R 1Lt SMC/XRT 833-1632]

That is great info! I've been reading all the HOWTOs and the Network
Administrator's Guide for three months in preparation for setting up my
home LAN. I never encountered anything about this subject before now.
Thanks!

Nate




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Nathan R. Thern, 1Lt       310-363-1632
SMC/XRIC

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> Sent:         Wednesday, June 03, 1998 12:20 PM
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> Subject:      Re: Changing hostname breaks login 
> 
> Sorry, that may have been a bit unclear.  Too much caffeine, plus a
> tendency
> to forget that some of these questions aren't coming from work. :)
> Anyway, much more clearly, and with a solution for the original
> poster:
> 
> In /etc/hosts, never remove the 127.0.0.1/localhost entry, either in
> its
>   entirety, or by changing localhost.
> 
> In /etc/hosts, if you have already set up your machine to respond to
> one or
>   more additional IP addresses, you may alias each of these IPs to one
> or
>   more hostnames.
> 
> using the /usr/bin/hostname command, you may define one of these names
> to
>   be the default hostname.  You may also use this command to assign a 
>   default hostname that does not exist in /etc/hosts, but this is bad
>   practice.
> 
> To address the original poster's concern, using KDE (or was it CDE?
> Don't
> recall) or any other graphical front-end will present problems for
> login
> if you've removed or otherwise changed the localhost entry.  Bring the
> machine up in single-user mode, login as root, and make sure localhost
> exists in /etc/hosts, and make sure your machine responds to whatever
> hostname you've set as default.
> 


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