System command on FreeBSD...

[Chad McWilliams]

> > I am in the process of migrating from SCO to FreeBSD. I 
> have installed 
> > the FreeBSD version of filePro, and have run into the following 
> > problem:
> >
> > On SCO when user bob runs the system command to run another FP 
> > program, @id shows bob in the new program.
> 
> > On FreeBSD when user bob does the same thing, @id shows 
> filepro in the 
> > new program.
> 
> > Is there away around this so that I get the SCO behavior of 
> the system 
> > command?
> 
> Not as far os the OS is concerned, and I don't know how FP 
> handles things internally in this regard. The BSD systems 
> handle this differently than the Unix systems systems do. I 
> think this goes back to the days when BSD was forked from 
> Version 7 [ or a release thereafter].
> 
> > I have played with PFSYSEUID to no avail.
> 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 4.9, filePro 5.0.13R4.
> 
> What is it you are trying to accomplish?
> -- 

We have a function set up that allows a user to switch to another menu (say
from order entry to customer master) to look up something.  The problem is
that under BSD when they do that, the other program is run as the user (@id)
of filepro, rather then their user id.  We have a security routine that
checks whether they are allowed to do what they are attempting it, and it
uses @id lookup the user by.

Does this make sense?

-Chad McWilliams