On Sun Jan 18, 2026 at 3:20 AM CET, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Applied, thank you.

Thank you very much! :3

>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM Achill Gilgenast <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Pre-configuring "Linux User" as Full Name is confusing a lot of users
>> downstream.[1] For example, in geary e-mails were sent out as "Linux
>> User"[2] and I also saw a couple of git commits with this name. This name
>> does not bring any more improvements than just leaving this field
>> empty, and let applications most likely fallback to the username.
>>
>> Alternative would be to set the field to `&` (Capitalized username,
>> according to passwd(5)) or that we just set the GECOS field downstream.
>>
>> [1] https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/issues/2214
>> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/-/issues/1486
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Achill Gilgenast <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  loginutils/adduser.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/loginutils/adduser.c b/loginutils/adduser.c
>> index d3c795afa48b..bfab05203241 100644
>> --- a/loginutils/adduser.c
>> +++ b/loginutils/adduser.c
>> @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ int adduser_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
>>                 bb_simple_error_msg_and_die(bb_msg_perm_denied_are_you_root);
>>         }
>>
>> -       pw.pw_gecos = (char *)"Linux User,,,";
>> +       pw.pw_gecos = (char *)"";
>>         /* We assume that newly created users "inherit" root's shell setting 
>> */
>>         pw.pw_shell = xstrdup(get_shell_name()); /* might come from 
>> getpwnam(), need to make a copy */
>>         pw.pw_dir = NULL;
>> --
>> 2.52.0
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