Bug ID 932950
Summary w truncates usernames and lies about available commands
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE 12.3
Version Final
Hardware Other
OS openSUSE 12.3
Status NEW
Severity Major
Priority P5 - None
Component Basesystem
Assignee bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter eimacdude@aol.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
Found By ---
Blocker ---

Typed:
w -n
or
w --no-truncat

Expected output: non-truncated listing, including usernames NOT truncated to 8
characters

Actual output:

Usage:
 w [options]

Options:
 -h, --no-header     do not print header
 -u, --no-current    ignore current process username
 -s, --short         short format
 -n, --no-truncat    non truncated listing (large)
 -f, --from          show remote hostname field
 -o, --old-style     old style output
 -i, --ip-addr       display IP address instead of hostname (if possible)

     --help     display this help and exit
 -V, --version  output version information and exit

Note the line in that: "-n, --no-truncat    non truncated listing (large)"
So it's explicitly saying to use a command that doesn't work. Is this someone's
idea of a joke?
Because I feel more like crying than laughing, when I can't get non-truncated
usernames of graphically-logged in users with w -snf | grep :0 | awk '{print
$1}'


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