On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 19:09 +0200, Alexander Boström wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 20:07 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Why not just get the gecos name field right? > > One problem with the GECOS field is that if the information comes from > LDAP, it will be ASCII only. (The cn field in LDAP is a UTF-8 string, > but nss_ldap doesn't care about it.) In /etc/passwd you can put > arbitrary bytes so UTF-8 works there, but not with LDAP. Unfortunately the homeDirectory attribute too is IA5String, I wonder if servers really enforce this today. Simo. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
