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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
The 'who' command limits the user name field to 8
characters, so any user name longer than that has it's
last character truncated.
who -u
dbrazzie pts/1 Sep 10 13:38 05:33 2605
(:2.0)
admin :0 Sep 10 13:39 ? 2928
admin pts/0 Sep 10 16:41 00:26 21034
(dell566)
dbrazzie pts/2 Sep 10 16:41 . 21077
(dell566)
admin pts/3 Sep 10 17:40 00:26 27159
(:0.0)
In comparison, the 'users' command displays the name
correctly:
users
admin admin admin dbrazziel dbrazziel
Oddly enough, both programs use the same function to
glean the user name: extract_trimmed_name() from
readutmp.c.
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Version: 6.10-1
New version prints full name. I'm still not convinced this is a good
idea (it makes the who output really ugly, and is inconsistent with the
output of related commands, like last(1)) but so it is.
Mike Stone
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