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[Discuss] Numeric UID shows up in ps -ef not alpha



On 03/13/2013 02:22 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I've got an issue at work where a ps -ef shows the numeric uid rather 
> than the user name:
> sburtt   22801 22800  0 13:50 pts/12   00:00:00 -bash
> 40162    23945 23910  0 14:19 ?        00:00:00 sshd: aviva_cwm at pts/17
> 40162    23946 23945  0 14:19 pts/17   00:00:00 -tcsh
> 40162    23964 23946  0 14:19 pts/17   00:00:00 ps -ef
>
> We are using LDAP for network authentication.
>
Solved.
ps will display the numeric uid if the user name is longer than 8 
characters.

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