From 721dcf1fd57c188bdf736e5c7620997af695ca42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:27:53 +0200
Subject: Set GECOS using usermod (not adduser) to allow longer data stuffed
 in.

---
 localadduser | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'localadduser')

diff --git a/localadduser b/localadduser
index 677131c..213d4d9 100755
--- a/localadduser
+++ b/localadduser
@@ -119,14 +119,10 @@ done
 if [ ! "$interactive" -gt 0 ]; then
 	quiet="--quiet"
 fi
-if [ -n "$fullname$office$office_phone$home_phone$other" ]; then
-	eval $simulate sudo "/usr/sbin/adduser $quiet --disabled-login --gecos \"$fullname,$office,$office_phone,$home_phone,$other\" \"$u\""
-else
-	if [ ! "$interactive" -gt 0 ]; then
-		exit1 "Not enough info provided to create account for \"$u\"!"
-	fi
-	eval $simulate sudo "/usr/sbin/adduser --disabled-login \"$u\""
-fi
+
+# adduser is too pessimistic on --gecos size
+eval $simulate sudo "/usr/sbin/adduser $quiet --disabled-login --gecos \"\" \"$u\""
+eval $simulate sudo "/usr/sbin/usermod -c \"$fullname,$office,$office_phone,$home_phone,$other\" \"$u\""
 
 for group in $groups; do
 	eval $simulate sudo "/usr/sbin/adduser $quiet \"$u\" \"$group\""
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