Unix and long usernames

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 07/31/2008 - 06:31

ran into an odd issue the other day when I was working on a Linux box. I noticed a number of processes in the ps output were listed with the user's UID instead of his username.

It took a little poking around before I realized that it was usernames with more than eight characters that were replaced by the numeric IDs.

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