* Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> [241124 15:20]: > As a data point, in our default GNOME desktop, System Settings > (gnome-control-center) prompts for a "Full Name" first (behind the > scenes that's the full name part of the pw_gecos field), and a "Username" > second (this is the pw_name); and the default display mode for the > gdm3 login prompt is to show a list of full names from pw_gecos.
> In the macOS world, it seems to be conventional and encouraged to set the > username to a lower-case ASCII string with no punctuation, similar to the > conventions in POSIX and <https://systemd.io/USER_NAMES/>. > Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a reference for what characters > macOS allows in pw_name. Perhaps a DD who has a macOS system (or a family > member with a macOS system) could help here? macOS generates a suggested pw_name from the fullname, approximating it by a reduction to an (apparently) ASCII character set. macOS is at least nice enough to try very hard to hide pw_name in all graphical interfaces and show the full name instead. (IIRC you can type the pw_name in if necessary.) Chris
