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

luca pedrielli luca.pedrielli at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 16:00:14 EST 2016


Il 27/02/2016 21:48, Ben Bullard ha scritto:
> 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

+1


>
> 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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