Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/12/10 13:02 CST:

> As a note, ps is now printing a uid instead of the name if the name is 
> too long.  Changing the names s/haldaemon/hald/ and s/messagebus/msgbus/ 
> in /etc/passwd provides the user name.

That has been standard behavior for years and years. I remember when
we first installed Anduin and jhuntwork was over 8 chars, so all his
processes were noted by UID and not the username. We had a thread on
this as well.

-- 
Randy

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