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- From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
- Subject: Re: Problems getting real uid within HPDMS.
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:06:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.151506.29060@oce.nl>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA
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- In article <1992Nov16.151506.29060@oce.nl>, frc@oce.nl (Frank Coolen) writes:
- > If a ME10 user enables HPDMS and connects to the database, the active
- > user om the database server is the dummy user "medmgr", this is listed
- > in allbase table SYSTEM.USER which is a pseudotable that contains a row
- > for each user currently accessing the DBEnvironment.
- > So there is only one user active in the database and that's "Mr. medmgr",
- > but many times.
- > The databases administrator can never see which real user is active in
- > the database. This is often a problem when maintenance has to be done.
-
- The reason for the one user is that DMS implements their own networking,
- i.e. Allbase/Net is not used. Instead the ME software communicates to the
- server program on the database server who actually does the connect. It
- is probably a DMS question (not Allbase).
-
- simon
-