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Re: $HOST on OS X
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- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: $HOST on OS X
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:46:02 +0200
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Le 5 juin 2010 à 20:52, Benjamin R. Haskell a écrit :
> Regardless, OS X is far from the only O/S that'll update hostnames when
> you join a network. And especially on a laptop, it often makes sense.
> For instance, after associating with a university's wireless network,
> your host probably has a different name assigned to it. Why would it be
> bad to update it?
Right, makes some sense.
>> IMO it's a security risk though...
>
> What part, and how so?
Dunno, didn't think much about it, but I suppose it could be a problem when inadvertently joining a network you didn't want to.
In any case it should be possible to disable it, but I've yet to find the setting on OSX.
François.
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