[systemd-devel] [PATCH] sysusers: remove additional finger information from gecos

Mantas Mikulėnas grawity at gmail.com
Sat Feb 7 15:50:53 PST 2015


On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Sami Kerola <kerolasa at iki.fi> wrote:

> This change removes garbage from authentication messages if chfn(1) has
> been used.  For example;
>
> $ timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London
> [...]
> Authenticating as: Sami Kerola,office,officephone,homephone, (kerolasa)
> ---
>  src/sysusers/sysusers.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>

This authentication prompt is part of polkit's pkttyagent
(src/polkitagent), it has nothing to do with systemd-sysusers.

(The systemd-sysusers tool is just for adding *new* accounts to
/etc/passwd... As far as I can see, i->description is only used for
filtering out duplicates.)

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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