SSH-Terminal not showing target hostname

[ruggerio]

Hi,

If i connect from my computer a to b via ssh, i would like to see the terminal-title user@b for better recognition, as i have many time more than a couple terminal sessions opened.

unfortunately, for the moment, it shows me user@a (the source-host).

Anybody aware of where changing this?

Thx
Roger

[DougieLawson]

What's in /etc/hostname ? That's where the name displayed on your ssh session originates.

Hostname has strict rules.

Please note: RFCs mandate that a hostname's labels \
may contain only the ASCII letters 'a' through 'z' (case-insensitive),
the digits '0' through '9', and the hyphen.
Hostname labels cannot begin or end with a hyphen.
No other symbols, punctuation characters, or blank spaces are permitted.\

[jojopi]

The default ~/.bashrc in Raspbian already tries to update the window title at each prompt:

Code: Select all

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac

This could fail if "user@b" does not have the default dot files from /etc/skel, or is using a shell other than bash, or if "user@a" has a TERM setting other than xterm or rxvt.

(Or machines "a" and "b" could have the same hostname. But surely that would be obvious.)

[evilkitty]

what terminal (or ssh client) are you using?
you may find this thread useful
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2216742

[ruggerio]

In fact it was the solution of jojopi.

What i didnt check, is the fact, that if you activate root, this isnt set. But it is set on each new user, you create.

Thanks!