[lug] 'ps' command showing user id # instead of username

[Calvin Dodge]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:49:06AM -0600, Justin wrote:
> box, everything works fine for them. The problem that I see is when 
> doing a "ps aux" to see all my running process's, it show that users id 
> # for the process's that he is running instead of the username. 
> 
> 576      15824  0.0  0.6  2156 1192 pts/8    S    18:00   0:00 -bash
> 576      15857  0.2  0.9  3284 1804 pts/8    S    18:00   0:00 BitchX
> glowecon 16150  0.0  0.3  2568  728 pts/11   R    18:04   0:00 ps aux
> 
> Of course that 576 should show up as 'jothenull':

Have you checked ps, to be sure it wasn't hacked? If you're using RH, try "rpm -V procps".
(that's just a wild guess, of course)

Calvin

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