Bug 529952

Summary:	"Last" truncates usernames after 8 characters
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Scott Baker <scott>
Component:	sysvinit	Assignee:	Petr Lautrbach <plautrba>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	notting, plautrba
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Description Scott Baker 2009-10-20 20:48:44 UTC

Description of problem:
When running the "last" command output is truncated after 8 characters of a username

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sysvinit-2.86-18.i386

How reproducible:
Easy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "last"
2. Check that the username column is truncated as 8 chars

Expected results:
Show the full username in the output. Alternately add a option for csv or "wide" output.

Additional info:
In /var/log/wtmp I see full usernames, it just appears they're not outputted correctly.

Comment 1 Petr Lautrbach 2010-04-12 13:49:34 UTC

added -w option for wide output to last command based on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550333

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-04-12 13:58:40 UTC

sysvinit-2.86-28.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sysvinit-2.86-28.fc11

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-04-14 01:35:46 UTC

sysvinit-2.86-28.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sysvinit'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sysvinit-2.86-28.fc11

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Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-04-30 17:18:07 UTC

sysvinit-2.86-28.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.