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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Feature request: uppercase letters in user names</H1>
<B>Deri James</B>
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<I>Wed Dec 14 17:58:48 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 16:38:34 nicolas vigier wrote:
><i> > >> From what he wrote, I get the impression he prefers to see iZoli,
</I>><i> > >> rather than izoli, when working the CLI. Why not ?
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</I>><i> > > Well, then just change the prompt, so it will display iZoli. Why do we
</I>><i> > > need to support uppercase letters in user names for that?
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</I>><i> > Indeed. The uid is not meant to be the display name, unless by
</I>><i> > default. Wondered if we had a better option than export FULLNAME=`grep
</I>><i> > -e "^$USER:" /etc/passwd|gawk -F':' '{print $5}'` in .bash_profile?
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</I>><i> getent passwd $USER | gawk -F':' '{print $5}'
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</I>><i> so that it works if the account is not in /etc/passwd.
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To get that into the CLI prompt do:-
export PS1="[`getent passwd $USER | gawk -F':' '{print $5}'`@\h \W]\$ "
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