Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 39230
User installations should get preset values from user's system account (first/last name, initials)
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:55:49 UTC
Currently, the user installation (after the rpms have been installed) asks besides other things the first and last name, and the initals of the user. It should use getent() (or similar) to get the user name and use this to preset the fields.
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enhanced summary, set keywords, confirming.
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Applies to all OSes. Please vote for this issue.
*** Issue 46233 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Since some of our functionality (change recording and restoring last edit point, among others) prefilling user data from OS data is highly desired because not many users bother with typing this data. This is especially true for corporate environments. Please consider this RFE for 3.x.
Martin, please consider this issue for 3.2 as more and more of our features depend on properly assigned user details (for example track edit changes, file locking warnings etc). It seems to be easy and safe to implement - in First Run Wizard read user details from the OS and prepopulate fields accordingly. Thanks a lot for your attention. With best regards, Kirill Palagin.
Just realized that we already read user data during installation. Adding couple of codelines to registration wizard looks like non-issue.
committed a patch for reading the username for the initals from the system to cws mh232.
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set target.
Martin, I love you! How can curious types see the patch without digging through the whole source? Thanks a ton!!
committed to cws mh232. I'm not very happy with the text "Initials" of the user. It's more like a system id. also provided more width for the text field since a system id is longer than just initials.
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now considered as a security issue, please see 105852.
reopen issue.
make issue as wontfix, as discussed in 105852
wontfix -> closed
Prefilling user info with login name is not what what this issue is about. All of the software on Windows can read actual first name/last name for this purpose. Linux also makes a provision for having first name/last name (see logon screen). We could read this information from OS and prefill it for the installer.
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I don't see this as an important task so I would suggest to close this as 'Wont Fix'.
Created attachment 72610
Created attachment 74007
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".