SCO OpenServer & filePro permissions

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

scooter6 at gmail.com propounded (on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:09:46PM -0400):
|   So does it matter what I set filepro's password to? 

There is no characteristic or behavior of any Unix user that is affected
one way or another by the password chosen for that user.  If you
never intend to log in as that user, then you don't even need to pick
something you can remember; anyhow root can always change any password
if the occasion arises.

I log in as appl (== filepro) all the time. In my password file, the
filepro line is duplicated by the appl line, under which login I
subscribe to this mailing list and am typing these words. The reason I
created appl with the same UID as filepro is that appl is shorter to
type. :-)

I do all my writing and editing of processing tables in 'vi'; doing
so as user appl, same as filepro, bestows the proper ownership on the
prc.tables.

I have also contrived to have the same UID for filepro on several my
customer's machines, which makes it more convenient to move fP-related
files between their computers and mine.


-- 
JP