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retitle 264615 Please be clearer about allowed characters for hostnames reassign 264615 base-config
severity 264615 wishlist
tags 264615 patch
thanks
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (
[email protected]):
[Klaus Ade Johnstad]
I tried setting my hostname to something including the 3 special
Norwegian characters, and was told that the hostname was invalid (no surprise there), with the explanation that the hostname could only
contain alphanumeric characters and the minussign.
Clearly the 3 special Norwegian character are alphanumeric characters,
and the error message is misleading, and should say something to that affect.
The error message should probably mention the ASCII letters a to z,
the ascii minus sign and the latin digits 0-9, as this is the valid characters list of characters for host names. Should it mention lower
case as well?
Special national letters like ���, and special national digits like
the arabic numbers, are not allowed even if the are "alphanumeric characters".
This pertains to base-config, if my memory is still correct.
As Petter sugest, some rewrite of the debconf templates should make
them clearer.
Not knowing the current status of D-i�? I just tag this bug properly
and attach a patch.
--- templates 2004-06-23 20:05:28.000000000 +0200
+++ templates.new 2004-08-15 09:01:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@
Type: note
_Description: Invalid hostname "${HOSTNAME}"
A valid hostname may contain period-separated parts containing only
- alphanumeric characters and the minus sign, be between 2 and 63
- characters long, and each part cannot begin or end with a minus sign.
+ lowercase ASCII characters (a-z), the minus sign and numbers (0-9),
+ be between 2 and 63 characters long, and each part cannot begin or
+ end with a minus sign.
Template: base-config/start-display-manager
Type: boolean
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