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by subscribed 88 days ago
GECOS fields are mandatory. You may just ignore them for your daemons.
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rascul 88 days ago
In what cases are they mandatory? I've been leaving them blank for decades.
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subscribed 85 days ago
Their existence is mandatory (see:/etc/passwd format).

You're free to ignore them/leave empty unless your server's policies say otherwise.

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