Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Deployment:
Startup Command and Parameter Reference

> ## User ID (-U)

> Use User ID (`-U`) with Password (-P) to specify the user ID.

> Operating system and syntax | UNIX Windows | `-U` `userid`
> Use with | Maximum value | Minimum value | Single-user default | Multi-user default
> Client Connection | – | – | – | –

> ``userid``

> The user ID of the user.

> Progress checks the `_User` table for the user ID supplied with the `-U` parameter. When it finds that user ID, it compares the password (after it has encoded the password) supplied with the `-P` parameter with the password in the `_User` table. If the two passwords match, Progress assigns the user ID to the OpenEdge session. Otherwise, the user is not allowed to connect to the database.

> With certain DataServers, the `-U` and `-P` parameters pass DataServer login information to a non-OpenEdge database. For more information, see your DataServer documentation.

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