What's with the comma's ?

[moonpup]

I just installed 9.04 Server and maybe never noticed this on earlier versions, but what are the 3 commas after my username in the /etc/passwd file? Empty variable fields like full name, phone, etc?

user:1000:1000:user,,,:/home/user:/bin/bash

[Ateles]

Yes, you're right - those are the GECOS fields (for name, phone, etc.).

[bab1]

... what are the 3 commas after my username in the /etc/passwd file? Empty variable fields like full name, phone, etc?

user:1000:1000:user,,,:/home/user:/bin/bash

As Ateles said, it's for GECOS fields. These are also known as comments. The utility finger will retrieve the comments from the CLI