On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:12:00PM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wrote: > I have an issue with openssh and UID's over 65535. Similar things were > discussed a bit back, but this is slightly different. Seems that sshd will > die when a user with a UID too high logs in. The root cause of this is > cygwin's use of an unsigned short for uid_t, instead of an integer. As the > UID goes through the ssh server, session.c calls get_last_login_time > (sshlogin.c) with an integer variable. When it hits get_last_login_time, > however, it's squashed into a uid_t, which is too small for it. The uid > changes and problems occur. > > I'm guessing it wouldn't be too swift to just change the definition in > types.h. That oughta break lotsa stuff. Is there some clear path to > getting uid_t changed to an int, or is there a different/better fix for > this?
Change the UIDs in /etc/passwd to be smaller than 65536. Changing uid_t to unsigned int would break almost all Cygwin applications. We wouldn't be backward compatible. We can't do this. At least at this point. I would expect some more really interesting changes in Cygwin before breaking backward compatible. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
