On Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 16:38:34 nicolas vigier wrote:

> > >> From what he wrote, I get the impression he prefers to see iZoli,

> > >> rather than izoli, when working the CLI. Why not ?

> > >

> > > Well, then just change the prompt, so it will display iZoli. Why do we

> > > need to support uppercase letters in user names for that?

> >

> > 

> >

> > Indeed. The uid is not meant to be the display name, unless by

> > default. Wondered if we had a better option than export FULLNAME=`grep

> > -e "^$USER:" /etc/passwd|gawk -F':' '{print $5}'` in .bash_profile?

>

> getent passwd $USER | gawk -F':' '{print $5}'

>

> so that it works if the account is not in /etc/passwd.

To get that into the CLI prompt do:-

export PS1="[`getent passwd $USER | gawk -F':' '{print $5}'`@\h \W]\$ "