_Originally created by Tails on [#5655 (Redmine)](https://public-redmine-archive.tails.boum.org/code/issues/5655)_ As suggested by adrelanos on [Tails-dev - Let’s share username, /etc/hostname and /etc/host among all anonymity distributions](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-January/002457.html) - username: user - /etc/hostname: host - /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 host.localdomain host No convincing reason not to do this [was provided](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-April/002830.html), so we decided to do it. ### Subtasks - [ ] tails/tails#11255 ### Related issues - **Related to** tails/tails#7061 - **Related to** tails/tails#7688 - **Related to** tails/tails#11256 - **Related to** tails/tails#15830