Hi all,

I add a user in my linux machine using the command 'useradd' as shown below.
# /usr/sbin/useradd -c "Non Root User" -d "/home/testUser" -g root testUser

"/etc/passwd" file shows that user created with uid '517'
cat /etc/passwd
ot:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/sbin/nologin
testUser:x:517:0:Non Root User:/home/testUser:/bin/bash

Then i executed my application 'myApp' with 'testUser' using command as shown below:
# cd /home/testUser/MY-APPLICATION
# su -l testUser -c "./bin/myApp"

But when I check the process with 'ps' command it shows 'myApp' with uid '517' rather than user name 'testUser'.
# ps aux |grep myApp
517 4299 13.1 0.3 131616 6644 ? Sl 11:46 2:44 ./bin/myApp

please help me, how to get user name in the process instead of uid.

regards
Naren

Use a 'ps' alias that uses the "-eo user" arg as in 'ps ax -eo user,pid,cmd'. You should note that working with numerical Ids is faster as no resolving is needed (also: 'ls -n', 'netstat -n', 'lsof -Pn').