"ps -ef" Displays UID Rather Than User Name
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Symptoms
Reasons
About this document
This document contains the symptoms and reasons why the ps -ef command
displays a UID rather than a login name. This document applies to AIX
Versions 4.x.
- Running NIS (formerly called Yellow Pages*).
- The command ps -ef shows the user ID number in the UID column rather than the
login name for some users.
There are a few reasons why the ps -ef command displays a UID rather
than the login name.
- If the process was run by a user whose name was removed from the
/etc/passwd file (such as during the running process), ps will report
the UID as
the owner of the process.
- If the /etc/passwd file or the NIS master (or slave) server could not be
reached at the time ps -ef was issued, the UID will replace the login
name for a particular process.
- If the master server modifies the /etc/passwd file, the
client machine will
not immediately show the changes. If you add a user to the system on the
master machine, the local machine will need to re-read the /etc/passwd file
from the server to notice the changes. The client version of the passwd file
contains only a few names and the NIS sequence at the end. Based on the
modification time, the client may not see the changes.
*"Yellow Pages" is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of British
Telecommunications plc.
"ps -ef" Displays UID Rather Than User Name: ITEM: FAX
Dated: 2000/08/09~00:00 Category: cmd
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