[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 436 Remove word 'field' from GECOS param label

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 03:17:49PM +0200, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> 
> Disclaimer: I have no strong feelings in this matter, it just looks
> weird to me, so I'm OK with not doing it if it's general consensus.
> Originally we wanted to do this change in
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3569 but it was not done
> because of string freeze.
> 
> I guess you can add field suffix to every field from /etc/password
> when you use it in a sentence but that doesn't necessary mean that

You can. But gid exists as a concept beyond /etc/passwd. So does home
directory. The GECOS field value does not, really.

> it's its name. man 5 passwd doesn't use word 'field' next to GECOS
> in fields description/list either. IMO our use case is the same.

It says:

	GECOS	This field (sometimes called the "comment field")
		[...]
		The gcos field in the password file was
		[...]

> Historically correct label would probably be 'GECOS identity' but
> that's not usable today as it's purpose is more general.

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Jan Pazdziora | adelton at #ipa*, #brno
Principal Software Engineer, Identity Management Engineering, Red Hat