UID problem - ssh with a user with a large uid fails

[Jason Tishler]

Artur,

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 03:11:30PM +0100, Artur Pinheiro wrote:
> I notice that in the event viewer I get "Cannot find account for uid 
> 2505." But the uid for that user is 133577
> 
> Here are the passwd record for that user
> user2:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:133577:10513:Artur Pinheiro,...
                             ^^^^^^
Cygwin uids are currently 16 bit.  Just hand edit your passwd entry so
that the uid is modulo 65K.

Jason

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