Comments on: Ubuntu: How to Change the Computer Name

By: Lars

Lars — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:55:22 +0000

Very helpful, thank you. What is the character limit?

By: Name

Name — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:34:12 +0000

As mentioned before, you'll need to change your /etc/hosts file as well. If you change the /etc/hostname first, Ubuntu probably won't let you open the /etc/hosts file with the gedit command. You can get around this with:
sudo vi /etc/hosts

By: mfarney

mfarney — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:26:01 +0000

So simple? I can''t believe it. I always wanted my computer to bare a good name but, like in any other operating system, I've been using Administrator or other general words.
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By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:54:04 +0000

You may (will) want to edit your /etc/hosts file too. So that your system isn't confused by the change: (sudo gedit /etc/hosts) look at the second line typically.

By: Lurker

Lurker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:01:38 +0000

I would change the /etc/hosts first if you don't the machine can not create a window. Otherwise works great on Ubuntu 9.04

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:06:08 +0000

Thanks

By: kumareshane1986

kumareshane1986 — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:13:20 +0000

its working pretty cool…

By: ubu-fan

ubu-fan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:38:00 +0000

hey thnx for the tutorial, worked like a charm ;)

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Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:42:44 +0000

You’ll also want to edit /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost hostname 127.0.1.1 hostname

if you don’t make those changes it has the possibility of slowing your machine to an absolute crawl. I say this only because I changed my hostname the same way as your tip and Gnome became about as slow as molasses in a Montana winter.