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[Mageia-discuss] Feature request: uppercase letters in user names

+ nicolas vigier + boklm at mars-attacks.org +
+ Wed Dec 14 17:38:34 CET 2011 +

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On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
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+> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 17:01, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
+> > Am 14.12.2011 16:33, schrieb Renaud (Ron) Olgiati:
+> >>> First, it is not clear if the request is clearly about the system user
+> >>> id/login or about the user real name
+> >> 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}'
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+so that it works if the account is not in /etc/passwd.
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