From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:14:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201712192014.vBJKErI9010289@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837bbe68-c13f-c31c-eb3b-123ff708f2c4@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> So I guess at some point we transitioned from the GECOS user ID to the
> comma delimited format that we use today. I suppose it was after there
> was no longer a need to store GECOS user IDs.
I think this happened at UCB, where they split it into comma-separated
fields indicating full name, office, phone number and something else
I don't remember at the moment. Probably for the finger command. I'm
pretty sure the BSD passwd(7) (or was it passwd(5)?) man page described
things in detail.
HTH,
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-19 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-19 6:00 Nigel Williams
2017-12-19 6:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-12-19 7:07 ` Don Hopkins
2017-12-19 18:21 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-19 19:05 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-19 20:03 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-19 20:14 ` arnold [this message]
2017-12-19 22:30 ` [TUHS] History of passwd fullname/info/"gecos" field (was Re: pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX?) Random832
2017-12-20 3:07 ` Noel Hunt
2017-12-19 18:48 [TUHS] pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX? Doug McIlroy
2017-12-19 20:08 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-12-19 22:26 ` Doug McIlroy
2017-12-19 20:29 Richard Tobin
2017-12-20 1:03 Noel Chiappa
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