Re: system users

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Vincent Bernat]
>> That is nice.  We will be able to get reasonable output under ps
>> command for exim4 too.
>
> You are right. Too long usernames are displayed numerically.

ps, top and wtmp/utmp (ie w,last, etc) have user name limits.  For ps
and top, it seem to be the POSIX limit of 8 characters, while
wtmp/utmp have 32 characters as the limit (see
/usr/include/bits/utmp.h).  To avoid admins being surprised when using
ps and top, I would strongly recommend to avoid more than 8 characters
in usernames.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen