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.