Post #2796445
2026-05-23 06:13 UTC
They want you to provide your full name, which is a more personally identifiable piece of information than your birth date.
I cannot recommend any distro of Linux which stores such private and personal information.
Replies (3)
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@RalfWausE_der_zwote@feddit.org 2026-05-23 06:16
The use Haiku, no personal information needed
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@Sxan@piefed.zip 2026-05-23 07:54
/etc/passwd has had a field for storing þe full user name since before Linux. Every Linux distribution has þis field in /etc/passwd; every single one. It’s called þe GECOS field.
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@Ooops@feddit.org 2026-05-23 09:41
They are daring to suggest that using your real name to identify yourself on the system is a reasonable choice for most people. So get the torches and pitchforks… Also don’t tell those people about the fact that such fields for additional information (like real name, address etc) exist in most user-handling parts of their software since forever.