project(4)                                                          project(4)


NAME
     project - project membership file

DESCRIPTION
     The /etc/project file contains for each user a comma separated list of
     all projects for which the user is authorized.  For example, an entry for
     the user "rdb" might look like this:

          rdb:genuser,sysadm,kerndev

     which indicates that "rdb" is authorized for the projects genuser, sysadm
     and kerndev.

     The first project in a user's entry is considered to be the user's
     default project, and will be assigned to the user's array session during
     login.  The user can switch to the other projects using the newproj(1)
     command.

     project is an ASCII file.  A "#" at the beginning of a line indicates a
     comment.  The "#" is only recognized at the beginning of a line, it
     should not be used after the project list.  The user name and project
     list fields are separated by colons; each user is separated from the next
     by a new-line.  Except at the beginning of each line, white-space is not
     ignored, thus in most cases there should be no spaces e.g. in the project
     list.

     This file resides in the /etc directory.  Because it contains no
     passwords, it can and does have general read permission.

     Like user and group ids, project ids are stored as numeric values by
     IRIX.  The mapping from ASCII project names to numeric project ids is
     contained in the file /etc/projid.

     Users that do not have entries in the project file or whose entries
     contain only invalid project names will be assigned a system default
     project ID.  This project ID is defined in the system variable dfltprid,
     which can be examined and/or modified using systune(1).

FILES
     /etc/project

SEE ALSO
     newproj(1), projid(4), array_sessions(5), projects(5).

BUGS
     Project information cannot currently be obtained via NIS.


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