On 2014-06-17 14:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 17 12:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jun 17 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Jun 16 22:39, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>>> Another (unrelated and less important) problem is that 'getent' >>>> happily produces lines with some extra ‘:’, in particular when the >>>> gecos field itself contains ‘:’. >>> >>> Wow, that *is* important. All fields returned from the server have to >>> get their colons converted to commas. I'll fix that. > > On second thought, removing colons should only occur for gecos. The > other fields shouldn't contain colons anyway since their content has to > be POSIX-compatible anyway. > > So, either I add code to remove the colons from the gecos field … This. > > >> While we're at it... do we really need the gecos info? Cygwin fills >> out this field with the Windows username and SID info for internal >> purposes, and then adds the gecos info from AD. However, it's just >> informational and usually only used by the finger(1) tool. >> >> Shall I just remove fetching the gecos fields from AD entirely? > > ... or that. Not that.
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