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how to change the computer name for ssh-keygen after changing the name in Preferences
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change Mac OSX computer name for ssh.md

Just changing the computer name in Sharing doesn't work. if you do ssh-keygen the older computer name still shows up.

In order to change the name of the computer, you need to do the following:

   sudo scutil --set ComputerName "new-name"
   sudo scutil --set LocalHostName "new-name"
   sudo scutil --set HostName "new-name"
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