Changing the long name on Terminal

Hi,

When I open the terminal I get the following long name:

user@parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:

Is there a way I can change the part after the use name to something much shorter? like maybe just "parallels" by itself.

Thanks,
Jay

 

Which distro did you install? If you installed Ubuntu you should be able to change it by updating two files. Follow these steps:

1) Open a terminal (control-option T)
2) sudo gedit /etc/hostname (change hostname to parallels, and save)
3) sudo gedit /etc/hosts (change hostname associated with 127.0.1.1 to parallels, and save)
4) sudo reboot now (restart your system)

 

Thank you sir, that greatly expands my terminal real estate