Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!prism!dvu From: dvu@prism.gatech.EDU (Dinh Vu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Real and effective userids. Message-ID: <2204@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 2 Oct 89 01:53:29 GMT References: <288@bmers58.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 14 In article <288@bmers58.UUCP>, davem@bmers58.UUCP (Dave Mielke) writes: > Can anyone tell me what the "official" distinction is between the real > userid and the effective userid of a process is? The real userid is the login id (the id from the passwd file), and used for communication only. The effective userid is used for accounting and other stuves... Dinh -- Dinh Vu Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!dvu ARPA: dvu@prism.gatech.edu