Paul Eggert wrote: > I don't know where that "8" comes from. In the original Unix, user IDs had > at most 5 digits.
Oh, misunderstanding! I chose the digits only to show the influence of the length of the UserID (name!) and GroupID on the list output. But I'm talking about the Unix UserID/GroupID with a historical maximum of 8 *characters* each! For these 16 characters, the columns should not shift.
