Username combo has 3 commas appended

[Bruce Cowan]

Binary package hint: policykit

For some reason, the PolicyKit "authenticate" dialogue's username combo box has 3 commas appended to the text. For instance, it says "Bruce Cowan,,, (bruce)" here.

[Emil Sit (emilsit)]

This can be reproduced by going to System > Administration > Users and Groups and then clicking Unlock. Probably something is getting the gecos field out of the passwd file and failing to parse it properly.

[Emil Sit (emilsit)]

Source appears to be the following and should probably be fixed upstream?

tools/polkit-gnome-authorization.c
357- for_uid = polkit_authorization_get_uid (auth);
358- pw = getpwuid (for_uid);
359- if (pw != NULL)
360: if (pw->pw_gecos != NULL && strlen (pw->pw_gecos) > 0)
361: for_user = g_strdup_printf ("%s (%s)", pw->pw_gecos, pw->pw_name);
362- else
363- for_user = g_strdup_printf ("%s", pw->pw_name);
364- else
--
649- continue;
650-
651- /* Real name */
652: if (pw->pw_gecos != NULL && strlen (pw->pw_gecos) > 0)
653: real_name = g_strdup_printf (_("%s (%s)"), pw->pw_gecos, pw->pw_name);
654- else
655- real_name = g_strdup (pw->pw_name);
656-

src/polkit-gnome-auth-dialog.c
207- }
208-
209- /* Real name */
210: if (passwd->pw_gecos != NULL && strlen (passwd->pw_gecos) > 0)
211: real_name = g_strdup_printf (_("%s (%s)"), passwd->pw_gecos, admin_users[n]);
212- else
213- real_name = g_strdup (admin_users[n]);
214-

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Found in hardy-alternate amd64 20080421 too.