Bug in userIDs in large domains in Cygwin 1.3.22-1

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Ken,

The new release will probably contain a lot of new and untested features,
so it will be marked experimental.  Also, I believe it's impossible to
give time estimates on when the new cygwin is going to be released - it's
a matter of all developers agreeing that cvs HEAD is release-ready.

For now, the solution is to edit your /etc/passwd file and assign yourself
any unique id < 65535, and things should just work.  The only requirement
on the user ID is, after all, that it be unique, and the fact that it's
the last number in the SID is purely an artifact of the implementation of
mkpasswd... ;-)  For more info, read
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html> (if you haven't yet, but I
suspect you have).
	Igor

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Lafond, Kenneth G wrote:

> I assume this will go in the next release.  According to the history for the
> last 4 or 5 releases it looks like one is coming up soon?  Out of curiosity,
> anyone have an idea of when that might be?
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 12:40 PM
> To: Lafond, Kenneth G; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Bug in userIDs in large domains in Cygwin 1.3.22-1
>
>
> Lafond, Kenneth G wrote:
> > Suggestion: Extend the userID field to be an INT instead of a SHORT.
>
> Work on this (possibly already complete?) is in cvs.
> Max.

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