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

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer bero at lindev.ch
Wed Feb 24 18:34:06 EST 2016


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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