I know that wifi hotspots have a wifi nickname; but how about my laptop? Does this identify me on the network, or do I only need to worry about the mac address for anonymity?
If my laptop has a wifi nickname, how can I view and edit this?
Thanks
Ok, your question motivated me to investigate and set mine. My default hostname after installation was localhost@localdomain, and I suspect that is what yours is, too.
There are two ways you can change it, either by editing the configuration files directly, or by using command hostnamectl. You can read the manpage for hostnamectl if you want to do it that way.
Add a line to /etc/hosts, leaving the line for 127.0.0.1 intact:
127.0.1.1 your_desired_hostname your_desired_hostname.localdomain
Create file /etc/hostname with line:
your_desired_hostname
I think you can edit the nickname by running iwconfig network_name nickname desired_nickname.If you just want to know what the nickname is try to run iwconfig network_name. To know the network name run iwconfig the wifi network should be the only one with information.
I got the following results, I'm not sure what they mean?
[xxxxx@xxxxx ~]$ iwconfig network_name
network_name No such device
[xxxxx@xxxxx ~]$ sudo iwconfig network_name
[sudo] password for xxxxx:
network_name No such device
[xxxxx@xxxxx ~]$ sudo iwconfig
wlp2s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"yomama"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=16 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=59/70 Signal level=-51 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:8613 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
virbr0-nic no wireless extensions.
virbr0 no wireless extensions.
enp1s0 no wireless extensions.
[xxxxx@xxxxx ~]$
[xxxxx@xxxxx ~]$ sudo iwconfig network_name nickname
Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) :
too few arguments.
[xxxxx@xxxxx ~]$
Asked: 2017-03-23 18:39:19 -0600
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I think you need see your computer name in the router interface, right?