Terminal showing weird username

[S4Vl0R]

My terminal user appears to be connected a some random device in its vicinity. At one point it used to be another ipad.

fabian@android-8842627ef57bb8a3 ~ %

- What does that actually mean and can i turn this behaviour off?

 

[Red Menace]

The prompt is coming from a reverse-DNS lookup, and is just from a previous user of the address that the server hasn't cleared. You can manually set the prompt in your user's profile (bash or whatever).

 

[KALLT]

If it bothers you, you can force a specific hostname with this:
sudo scutil --set HostName yourhostname

You could set it to your computer name (as shown in System Preferences → Sharing or scutil --get ComputerName)

 

[lyuluck]

If it is a new phone and you have just installed a new app. Fabian may be the name of the developer of the program, which has no influence. But if it is a used phone or refurbished phone, you have to clean up the user records and generate a robot name

 

[Shark5150]

There's no terminal on a phone. He's talking about a Mac