How about a patch to mkpasswd to do this? Would you be interested? > -----Original Message----- > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:35 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: openssh issue with UID's over 65535 > > > 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/ >
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