Re: Setting hostname while spawning pasta

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 13 May 2024 13:45:51 +0530
Danish Prakash <danish.prakash@suse.com> wrote:

> > But we could still retain the existing hostname and prefix with
> > something like 'pasta-on-' (sure, we would need to truncate at 63
> > characters, but it shouldn't be a common case). What do you think?  
> 
> That sounds like a good idea. I didn't realize you'd be running
> pasta-in-pasta.. but that's reasonable. Though this will be helpful,
> I'm not entirely sure if this would override the prompts that many
> have set. At least my rudimentary shell prompt doesn't recognize the
> pasta user namespace and continues to show the same old prompt. I hope
> I'm the only one having this issue.

I currently have these behaviours with default prompts:

- Alpine:
  host:~$ pasta
  host:~# 

- Debian:

  user@host:~$ pasta
  root@host:~# 

- Fedora:

  [user@host ~]$ pasta
  [root@host ~]# 

- openSUSE:

  user@host:~> pasta
  host:~ # 

so I generally have a hint of something going on, but in any case,
changing the hostname is helpful for unfamiliar users or even just for
the pasta-in-pasta case I mentioned.

> > What I can't tell from the prompt, though, is at what "level" I'm at
> > (at least pasta-in-pasta is something I try very commonly to reproduce
> > pasta's behaviour with particular network setups). Having
> > root@pasta-on-pasta-on-machine would be a nice plus.  
> 
> But in general, this idea sounds good, I'd like to take a shot at
> this, and I can send over the patch for you to test once I'm done.
> What do you think?

Sure, thanks, looking forward to it!

-- 
Stefano