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Asked: 2026-05-21T04:57:43+00:00

My computer’s host name is set to ’37MeanMachine’, and my key is like: ssh-rsa

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My computer’s host name is set to ’37MeanMachine’, and my key is like:

ssh-rsa AA.....== thirtySeven@37MeanMachine

The problem is that, when I try to initialize gitosis with this key, I get the error:

gitosis.init.InsecureSSHKeyUsername: Username contains not allowed characters: 'thirtySeven@37MeanMachine'

When I changed my key to

ssh-rsa AA.....== thirtySeven@MeanMachine

i.e. I removed ’37’ from my hostname in the ssh-key, it ran perfectly fine and the key initialized. AFAIK, it is completely valid for a hostname to have numbers, why am I having a problem in my case? And what is the solution to this problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    A hostname should not start with a digit.

    See https://www.poweradmin.org/trac/wiki/Documentation/DNS-hostnames

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