On Wed, 3 May 2017 04:54:41 -0500, Jantje. wrote:
>
>I have 55 users (mostly for deamons, but not all) having UID=0. When I do a
>ls -l
>on any directory, I see the files belonging to root (owner uid = 0) are
>attributed to belong to one user ID out of that list of 55. I know the UID is
>what is holding the single truth about ownership, but I am wondering how the
>reverse look-up works. It does systematically choose the same name to show,
>whether this is for file ownership or for process ownership (ps -ef command).
>
>Is there documentation where this reverse lookup process is described?
>
I don't know.
>Does anyone know how it works?
>
It may be the newest entry in a RACF cache.
It should improve in z/OS 2.3:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS217-085/index.html&request_locale=en
-- gil
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