Open System Services Management and Operations Guide (H06.06+)

Glossary
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user ID
user ID. The unique identification of a user within a node.
In the Guardian environment, the term “user ID” usually means the group number and
member number pair; for example, the user ID of the super ID is usually described as
(255, 255). In the OSS environment, the term “user ID” usually refers to the single
number that is the scalar view of the user ID—a number called the UID. See also UID.
UTC. See Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
working directory. A directory, associated with a process, that is used in pathname
resolution for pathnames that do not begin with a slash (/) character.