The gecos field, or GECOS field is an entry in the /etc/passwd file on Unix, and similar operating systems.
It is typically used to record general information about the account or its user(s) such as their real name and phone number.
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“The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darkey may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
A few more days for to tote the weary load,—
No matter, ‘t will never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road:—
Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)