RE: PID

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Hi.

> What is the significance of PID

The PID is a Personal Identifier to make a User ID or Group unique. While
each Workgroup can only have one DataMangler User ID and one Group of
Geniuses, if there weren't a way to uniquely identify this User ID and
members of this Group from the current Workgroup, then someone could create a
new Workgroup with its own DataMangler User ID and the Group of Geniuses,
too, and then open the secured database with the other workgroup file as a
user with the permissions assigned to the native DataMangler. This doesn't
happen because Jet uses the PID to distinguish one DataMangler from another.
Even though the other DataMangler has the same name, it's not the same user,
thanks to the PID helping to create a unique user name.

HTH.

Gunny

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"neeraj" wrote:

> What is the significance of PID
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