Comment 7 for bug 484238
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| Tony Shadwick (numbski+bugs-launchpad-net) wrote | #7 |
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From Linux's own man page on the topic:
GECOS:
This field is optional and only used for informational purposes. Usually, it contains the full user name. GECOS means General Electric Comprehensive Operating System, which has been renamed to GCOS when GE's large systems division was sold to Honeywell. Dennis Ritchie has reported: "Sometimes we sent printer output or batch jobs to the GCOS machine. The gcos field in the password file was a place to stash the information for the $IDENTcard. Not elegant."
So the only thing we should be looking for there is the user's real name. So....I'm at a loss. :P