nobody user in terminal

Question

What's nobody phrase in Terminal (and iTerm)?

It sometimes changes to my Mac name. But why is it nobody and how to prevent it?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

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nobody is probably the hostname your system gets from a DHCP server. This also explains why sometimes you see the name you set yourself.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

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answered Nov 29 '16 at 22:34

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