Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Randy McMurchy wrote: >> >> The kernel version has nothing to do with the display of usernames. It >> doesn't even know about usernames--only uids and gids. It has to be in >> the ls/ps code. > > That makes sense. Might shadow have an effect on this as well?
No. Shadow does not affect ps. I just did an experiment. I created a user 'averylongname' and ps does indeed change this to a number, but ls -l adjusts the column width to accomodate the long name. Investigating... -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
