Randy McMurchy wrote:
> 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.

You're probably right.  My memory is not that great.  I think I recall 
an indentation of those lines with long names.

   -- Bruce

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