ls problem with Winbind files?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jan 16 10:19:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:38:05PM +0000, Mark Cooke wrote:
> 
> >Ive sucessfully managed to get Winbind to authenticicate from our NT PDC 
> >to work as expected :-)
> 
> But the only problem I get is when listing the file/directory owner and 
> group names, it seems to cut off most off the characters,
> thus only showing up to 8 characters. (From what I know this may be only 
> down to the 'ls' command).
> 
> ie.:
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 MMEBS+ma MMEBS+Do        4 Jan 16 17:54 test
> 
> what I really want, is it to show the complete name, ie:
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 MMEBS+mark MMEBS+Domain Winbind        4 Jan 16 17:54 test.
> 
> I can get it to print out the id's in numeric form, which is great, but I 
> only wanted it to show users full names.
> 
> Is this possible or is it as I mentioned a ls problem,

It's an ls problem. ls is truncating the output.

Jeremy




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