At 03:22 PM 7/13/2005, Igor wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> At 01:46 AM 7/13/2005, FischRon.external wrote:
>>
>> >So what I did is to manually edit /etc/passwd and set my user id back
>> >to 400. Then I opened a new cygwin shell and, voila, ssh works again.
>> >
>> >Now the que
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 01:46 AM 7/13/2005, FischRon.external wrote:
>
> >So what I did is to manually edit /etc/passwd and set my user id back
> >to 400. Then I opened a new cygwin shell and, voila, ssh works again.
> >
> >Now the question is: What possible damage to my system
At 01:46 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote:
>> >> You'll
>> >> probably find that you need to change the ownership of files
>> >> in your home
>> >> directory (at least) to enable public key authentication again.
>> >
>> >You mean: changing all files to owner 121833? That is:
>> Should I do this:
>> >
> >It was the other way around. I happened to have an "old" open shell
> >where id was still seen as 400, and *there* did ssh work; but when
> >I closed the window and opened a new shell, my numeric user id is
> >now 121833 and ssh does not work anymore at all.
>
>
> Ah-huh. And did you do what
At 10:01 AM 7/12/2005, you wrote:
>> ># Before recreating /etc/passwd
>> >$ id
>> >uid=400(fischron) gid=401(mkpasswd)
>> >groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(mkgroup_l_d),401(
>> mkpasswd)
>> >
>> ># After recreating /etc/passwd
>> >$ id
>> >uid=121833(fischron) gid=10513(mkgroup_l_d)
>> >
Original Message
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: 12 July 2005 15:01
>> The above error occurs in ssh-keygen.c when getpwuid(getuid)
>> fails. It
>> appears Cygwin still thinks of you as uid 400. Just try stopping all
>> Cygwin shells and services and then restarting (via
>> cygwin.bat).
>
> ># Before recreating /etc/passwd
> >$ id
> >uid=400(fischron) gid=401(mkpasswd)
> >groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(mkgroup_l_d),401(
> mkpasswd)
> >
> ># After recreating /etc/passwd
> >$ id
> >uid=121833(fischron) gid=10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> >groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(
At 06:00 AM 7/11/2005, you wrote:
>Due to various problems on my system, I have recreated /etc/group and
>/etc/passwd by
>
> mkpasswd -l -c >/etc/passwd
> mkgroup -l -c >/etc/group
>
>Now ssh does not work anymore: I always get the error message
>
> "You don't exist, go away!"
>
>The error occur
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