Unique Identifier – generic term for magic numbers to identify content
A number that uniquely identifies a user. Mac OS X computers use the UID to keep track of a user's directory and file ownership.
A number, usually associated with a login name, used by the system to identify owners of files and directories. The UID of a process becomes the owner of files created by the process and descendant processes.
Unique Identifier (See also Globally Unique Identifier).
Unique Identifier. The UID identifies each item or piece of equipment. For additional information see: http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/UID
Acronym for User Interface Design.
Short for ser ID. The means by which a user is identified to various parts of Red Hat Linux. UIDs are numeric, although human-readable names are stored in the /etc/passwd file.
nique Id entifier – The unique number given to a card/credential making it unique from any other card/credential – like a VIN# of a car.
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A unique number associated with each user on a UNIX system.
An RTML unique id, i.e. a special name for an RTML tag which, unlike normal XML id's, is unique not only within a document, but for the set of all possible RTML documents. The uniqueness is garanteed by having RTML server's issue uid's rather than letting users/clients dream them up themselves.
A UID, or "Unique Identifier", is a globally unique 32-bit number used in a compound identifier to uniquely identify an object, file type, etc. When users refer to "UID" they often mean UID3, the identifier for a particular program. See also: UID typeUID1 UID2 UID3 compound identifier
See user number and AIXwindows User Interface Definition.
the system associates a user ID number to each user. This is used when saving files to disk since a 4-byte integer is easier to save to disk (since it is more effecient to store a 4-byte number than an ASCII text name name)
A decimal number that uniquely identifies a gateway username on the firewall. In essence, the UID becomes, for the firewall software, synonymous with the username. UIDs are entered as part of the process of creating a gateway username on the firewall.
Unique Identifier (or Unique ID).
pseudo-column returning a numeric value identifying the current user. SQL SELECT USER, UID FROM DUAL; USER UID ------------------------------ ---------- SCOTT 207