MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

id(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities id(1)

–r with –g or –u, displays the real ID rather than the effective one.

–u displays only the effective user ID number.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0 Successful completion.

1 You speciﬁed an invalid user with the –u option.

2 Failure due to an invalid command line argument.

Messages

Message: getgroups failed

Cause: See syserror(3).

Action: See syserror(3).

Message: Insufficient memory

Cause: There were not enough free system resources to perform the speciﬁed operation.

Action: Free up more resources.

Message: invalid user name: "user"

Cause: You speciﬁed a user name that was not found in the passwd ﬁle.

Action: Check that you spelled the user name correctly.

Message: Unknown option "–option"

Cause: You speciﬁed an option that is not valid for id.

Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section of this man page for a list of valid id

options.

PORTABILITY

x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0. UNIX System V.

MPE/iX NOTES

The current release of MPE/iX does not allow a user to belong to more than one group.

For more information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of

this utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.