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Re: 'who' do not let me know which user is loged in since names are cute


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: 'who' do not let me know which user is loged in since names are cuted 8 characters
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:58:11 +0100
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Michelle Konzack <address@hidden> writes:

> Is it possibel to add an option to "who" to show the full ${LOGNAME}
> of the ${USER} ?
>
> On my FileServer I have 17.000 ${USER} and 56 of them are shown only
> as "michelle".  So I can not know, which "michelle" is loged in.

If you only see part of the login name then that means that your system
utmp file does not store than that.  There is nothing the who command can
do about this.

Andreas.

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