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[–] 11 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

Linux has similar fields for realName, emailAddress, location, timezone and more. But like birthdate, I think they're all optional.

Was Linux ever used for massive multiuser systems? I thought it had always been primarily home use and internet servers. I think big multiuser systems went out of fashion with Solaris. Well, I suppose corporate workstations need user accounts where some of these are set.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    No Linux as such was not, by the time Linux got popular the big multiuser systems were on their way out. I still worked on those in college. But they were SGI, HP-UX and Sequent. Especially the latter were huge systems.

    But these fields were just a clone of what was in the original Unix systems.

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