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On 20/12/2006, at 6:32 AM, James H H Lampert wrote:

I looked at getpwuid myself. According to the V4R2 and
V4R4 Softcopy manuals,
READ authority is required to the user profile associated
with the uid.

But in the V5 Disinformation Center, it says

*READ authority is required to the user profile associated
with the UID. If the user does not have *READ authority,
only the user name, user ID, and group ID values are
returned. Note: Adopted authority is not used.

Does anybody know if the latter behavior was always that
way, or if it was new in V5?

It appears the documentation was corrected in VRM450 but the API has always worked the way it is currently described. I did a quick test against a VRM440 system I have here and it worked fine to retrieve the name of a UID to which *PUBLIC has *EXCLUDE authority and the profile under which I ran the test had no specific authority to the UID profile.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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