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Re: Problems with 'I have no name'

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:15:59AM -0700, Matt Perry wrote:

> I also thought that this was strange.  Here is my entry in /etc/passwd:
> 
> perrym3:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:81217:10513:Perry, Matt {Info~Pleasanton},U-RNUMDMA
> S\perrym3,S-1-5-21-2116170847-193796598-433219294-71217://RPBMF106/perrym3$:/bin
> /bash
> 
> But when I log in and type 'id' I get the following:
> 
> uid=15681 gid=10513 groups=544(Administrators),545(Users)

Currently cygwin does not support uid > 0xFFFE.
My (untested) recommendation is to edit passwd and change the
uid to 15681.

Pierre


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