kickstart user and the --gecos option

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Thu Nov 25 18:31:01 UTC 2010


JB wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz<rgm<at>  htt-consult.com>  writes:
>
>> ...
>
> They are (for Linux):
> full name, office, office phone, home phone
>
> Kickstart option:
> --gecos=
>      Provides the GECOS information for the user. This is a string of various
> system-specific fields separated by a comma. It is frequently used to specify
> the user's full name, office number, and the like. See man 5 passwd for more
> details.
>
We used to say GECOS would never die, but we meant the OS instead of the field 
name. But the fields after the full name were always optional, I guess the 
blanks are at fault, the quotes don't seem to work as delimiters, do they?

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