[Bug 928447] Re: possible to use a number for your computer's name

[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)."

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  possible to use a number for your computer's name

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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.

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