loginid vs. uid.

[John Milburn]

In article <316 at dynasys.UUCP> jessea at dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>I have learned to make a distinction between a loginid and the userid.
>The loginid is the actual name of your login.  For example:  jessea.
>The userid is the actual number, your uid.  For example:  110.
[...]
>My question is does anyone else view them this way, and if not what is
>the relationship? 

I have a number of different loginids one my system with the same
uid. There are times when I want to be in a completely different
environment from the one I normally use, so the easiest way to accomplish
this while retaining access to all of my files is to login with another
loginid, in a different home directory, but using the same uid.


-jem
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