On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:06:45PM -0600, 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.

My username on my system is krendoshazin, and that shows up as 1000 in
ps. As far as I remember it's always done this, but in a program like
top it shows up as krendosh.
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