1.3.20: bug: UID over 65536: "I have no name!"

[Keith Hopkins]

Hi!

  1.3.20-1 on Win2k, downloaded 20030306.

  I saw this when a friend of mine, and myself were trying to install 
1.3.20 yesterday (dl, then install from dl).

  The install would go fine, but when you started the shell, $UID would 
have dropped the high bits from the NT-DOMAIN UID.  For example, if my 
friend's NT-DOMAIN UID (native win2k)  was 65558, then his $UID  would 
become 22.  On my machine (different company / NT-DOMAIN), the NT-DOMAIN 
UID is 108293, but the $UID is 42757.  

  The big problem was that after running "mkpasswd -d -u USERNAME 
NT-DOMAIN >> /etc/passwd", you get the message:
id: cannot find name for user ID 42757
I have no name!@EJP0874 ~
$

  So, Nothing matches for the NT-DOMAINs in /etc/passwd.
  Without running mkpasswd, my friend would get permission errors when 
he starts his shell.
  The workaround I found was to change the UID to drop the high bits in 
/etc/passwd. (change UID 108293 to 42757 for my user).

  Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Help?


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