Dear Listers, 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? Does anyone know how it works? Thanks and very best regards, Jantje. P.S. The only potential "problem" I would like to solve is a cosmetic one, obviously. It would be nicer to show 'root' instead of a given userID. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
