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

luca pedrielli agoiza at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 18:55:35 EST 2016


Il 27/02/2016 22:22, Blackcrack ha scritto:
> Hi Ben :)
>
> no, we should support this, Think on Factory's,
> where could supporting us, the need something like this..
> also in ldap networks too and other ..
> something it's a cornerstone for have a extended User 
> Administration/management.
> And the whole User management  like drakuser and something should be 
> updated..
> for supporting some factory infrastructure with extended User 
> informations  ..
>
> best regards
> Blacky


Hi Blacky,
you can use "userinfo" in konsole to manage user information.

But why keep commas if user info are not managed?

Anyway, not a big problem for me if the full name returned is always 
delimited by the first comma.

Best, Luca,,,,  ;)



>
> Am 27.02.2016 um 21:48 schrieb Ben Bullard:
>> 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
>> --------------------
>> 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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Saluti, Luca Pedrielli

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