UPDATE ......From Tuesday 8 April 2025 we have changed the way that Single Sign-on works on this wiki. Please see here for more information:
Update
By default the Mac OSX terminal windows window will show the prompt with using the hostname - which can be anything, assigned from DHCP.
To have it display the name as configured in the Sharing control panel, edit /etc/bashrc and replace PS1 with this:
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