System Administration Guide: Security Services

Aliases File

The aliases file contains a list of aliases that share the same user ID.

Each entry is in this form:

uid=alias1=alias2=alias3=...

uid

Shared UID. 

aliasn

User account that share the UID. 

For example, the following entry lists the UID 0 that is being shared by the sysadm and root accounts:

0=root=sysadm