[U2] Universe on Windows, PID and UID
Universe 10 on Windows In the LISTU output, there is the old familiar PID which is the same as Port Number, but there is also a UID. Looking through the online manuals, I see this UID referred to a few times where it's just called User Id, but there's no mention of for what this can be used, if anything. Ours are all six digit numbers and start with 197 or 198, perhaps there is a flag somewhere that sets this starting point. Are these randomly assigned when a user logs in? Each new process they grab then also grabs the exact same User Id until they are all logged out? Or are they set once per use, and will never change for that user, on that system. Is the User Name looked up based on the User Id ? And if so in what file? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Universe on Windows, PID and UID
I'm pretty sure that's the OS user id that you would see on unix in /etc/passwd or as the first column in a ps -f listing. If you're root it will be 0. On windows it's some similar number. unidata returns it in @UID On Aug 21, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Universe 10 on Windows In the LISTU output, there is the old familiar PID which is the same as Port Number, but there is also a UID. Looking through the online manuals, I see this UID referred to a few times where it's just called User Id, but there's no mention of for what this can be used, if anything. Ours are all six digit numbers and start with 197 or 198, perhaps there is a flag somewhere that sets this starting point. Are these randomly assigned when a user logs in? Each new process they grab then also grabs the exact same User Id until they are all logged out? Or are they set once per use, and will never change for that user, on that system. Is the User Name looked up based on the User Id ? And if so in what file? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [U2] Universe on Windows, PID and UID
If so, it seems like it must be set when user's are created on the Network, and just *read* by Universe. Not really sure why Universe would need to know the UID as opposed to the logon name. Perhaps to set permissions to create and access files in the O/S ? That would imply of course that the true setting on those is numeric and the name of the owner of a file is looked up in a table somewhere. Wonder what happens to the owner field of those files, when you delete that user because they left the company? -Original Message- From: Ed Clark u...@edclark.net To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 2:23 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Universe on Windows, PID and UID I'm pretty sure that's the OS user id that you would see on unix in /etc/passwd or as the first column in a ps -f listing. If you're root it will be 0. On windows it's some similar number. unidata returns it in @UID On Aug 21, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Universe 10 on Windows In the LISTU output, there is the old familiar PID which is the same as Port Number, but there is also a UID. Looking through the online manuals, I see this UID referred to a few times where it's just called User Id, but there's no mention of for what this can be used, if anything. Ours are all six digit numbers and start with 197 or 198, perhaps there is a flag somewhere that sets this starting point. Are these randomly assigned when a user logs in? Each new process they grab then also grabs the exact same User Id until they are all logged out? Or are they set once per use, and will never change for that user, on that system. Is the User Name looked up based on the User Id ? And if so in what file? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
