[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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