20 Dec
2017
20 Dec
'17
2:14 a.m.
Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)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