{"id":8710,"date":"2016-08-05T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T11:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/list-usernames-instead-of-uids-with-the-ps-command-for-long-usernames\/"},"modified":"2016-08-05T13:27:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T11:27:52","slug":"list-usernames-instead-of-uids-with-the-ps-command-for-long-usernames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/list-usernames-instead-of-uids-with-the-ps-command-for-long-usernames\/","title":{"rendered":"List usernames instead of uids with the ps command for long usernames"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By William Sescu<\/h2>\n<p>Have your ever faced such a situation. You have usernames in your \/etc\/passwd file with more than 8 characters. This is no problem for Linux at all, usernames may be up to 32 characters long, only your ps output might look a little scrambled.<\/p>\n<p>It shows you the uid instead of the username like in the following example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: actionscript3; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">$ id\n\nuid=20001(longuser01) gid=10002(oinstall) groups=10002(oinstall)\n\n$ sleep 1000000 &amp;\n\n$ ps -ef | grep sleep | grep -v grep\n\n20001    14069 11739  0 14:11 pts\/0    00:00:00 sleep 1000000<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But you want to see the username instead of the uid. The workaround is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t use more than eight characters for your usernames\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Or \u2026. format your ps output the right way<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You could use the following alias to get the job done.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: actionscript3; gutter: true; first-line: 1\">$ alias psx='export PS_FORMAT=\"user:12,pid,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start,time,command\"; ps ax'\n\n$ psx | grep sleep | grep -v grep\n\nlonguser01 14069  0.0  58940 520 pts\/0 S 14:11:50 sleep 1000000<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now it looks better.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Sescu Have your ever faced such a situation. You have usernames in your \/etc\/passwd file with more than 8 characters. This is no problem for Linux at all, usernames may be up to 32 characters long, only your ps output might look a little scrambled. 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