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ps showing user id insted of username

Today I had a weird problem with “ps”, which wouldn’t display the username of a certain process no matter what I did. The reason was, that ps doesn’t seem to display usernames longer than 8 characters. So you have to live with it, or just rename your user accordingly.

This is where I found the solution.