ps command gives only userid for certain users, not username
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ps command gives only userid for certain users, not username
This is driving me crazy. I've added two users today with "useradd -m <username>". All processes for the first user I added show up in "ps -elf" with the userid listed instead of the username. Processes for the second user show up as I would expect: with the username.
For the problematic user, when I do ps -eo "%u", the list includes the username but doing ps -eo "%u %c" causes it to display the userid with the command.
The entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow seem right.
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