[OM Cooker] Why does Calamares make user's full name like this?

Ben Bullard benbullard79 at cox.net
Sat Feb 27 15:48:02 EST 2016


OK, didn't know that. However Calamares doesn't ask for the other 
information separated by the commas only for one's full name so could we 
eliminate the commas?

Ben Bullard
ben79
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OpenMandriva-QA Team

On 02/24/2016 05:34 PM, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On 2016-02-24 22:10, Ben Bullard wrote:
>> Calamares makes users full name followed by 4 commas like this from
>> '/etc/passwd':
>>
>>  ben79:x:1001:1006:Ben Bullard,,,,:/home/ben79:/bin/bash
>>
>> I wonder why.
>
> Convention in some companies (and probably some distributions too)
>
> Name,Job Title,Room,Department,Location (IIRC, might be slightly 
> different). The commas at the end simply imply empty fields for all 
> the unspecified stuff.
>
> ttyl
> bero

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