On Sunday 20 February 2005 4:33 pm, Michael Woinoski wrote: > On Mandrake 10.1 Community, when I run "ps -ef", the UID column shows the > user name for the owner of all processes except the dbus-daemon-1 process > owned by uid 72. The line for that process shows the numeric uid instead of > the user name. /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group all have an entry > for a user named messagebus with uid 72. Why doesn't ps display the user > name for this process?
"messagebus" is actually somewhat of an invalid username in that it is longer than 8 characters. So, it won't fit into the space on the "ps" output line.
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