Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-Id:	<4.3.1.2.20020214215247.01f09610@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
X-Sender:	lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com
X-Mailer:	QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:57:37 -0500
To:	David Kohn <d DOT kohn AT attbi DOT com>, cygwin-digest-help AT cygwin DOT com,
	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: mkpasswd
In-Reply-To:	<5.1.0.14.2.20020214195054.023ad9d0@mail.attbi.com>
References:	<1013736700 DOT 21138 DOT ezmlm AT cygwin DOT com>
Mime-Version:	1.0

At 08:52 PM 2/14/2002, David Kohn wrote:
>I'm running cygwin 1.3.9 on a NT40 server.
>I've created /etc/passwd by issuing mkpasswd -du selected-id >> /etc/passwd .
>I'm having a problem with one id. this id is domain id and has been added to the local admin group.
>when I logon to the server with this id and start cygwin, the shell comes up and says I don't have any name.
>so I issue the whoami command and it comes back with uid 30823. The passwd file records for this id shows a uid of 96359.
>when I replace the 96359 with 30823 the shell seems to act correctly.
>Does anyone know why I'm getting different (and incorrect uid) for this or any id ?


Check the email archives.  There has been discussion about the size of the 
uid/gid fields.  Currently, they are 'short'.  That's the problem you're 
seeing.  See the code/Changelog for any changes underway.  They'll take a 
while to propagate to all the affected utilities.



Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -