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This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3569

Ticket was cloned from Red Hat Bugzilla (product ''RHEL RFE''): [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951090 Bug 951090]

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Add an option to edit "Gecos" field from IPA web UI

What is the nature and description of the request?

Currently there is no option in IPA web UI to modify existing "Gecos" field,
Add an option to edit "Gecos" field from IPA web UI (This is available in ipa
command line tool, however customer would like to have it on web UI).

Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

The reason we need access to the gecos field is that we use this field for
identifing the users in different ways. Using gecos makes it the same on all
Unix/Linux operating systems.

A big issue is that we want to have the user administration done by other than
system administrators and if they cant use the IPA web gui to do what we need,
we may need to look at another product for user administration.
We can always use the ipa user-mod commands after the user is added but this
makes it a bit more complicated for others than system administrators.

Fixed upstream:  Master: e10d934230a7f70fd9ea20a3ca96f4b8356f5664 Make gecos field editable in Web UI

Verified using ipa-server-3.3.3-13.el7.x86_64

Steps taken:
- access UI
- On Identity tab, add and edit a user
- The GECOS field is available and set to user's first name last name
- Updated this field with a new value
- verified the updated value using ipa user-show <username> --all --raw

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you have further questions about the request.