Carl Lowenstein wrote:
The next observed difference is that luseradd refers to field 5 of the passwd file as gecos, while useradd refers to it as "comment". GECOS is so old that it predates Unix.
I've always called it GECOS also and once heard what that stood for but have since forgotten. A quick search turns up:
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