ncftp: Who are you?

[Andrew DeFaria]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On May 7 11:26, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> When I use ncftp I get the following:
>>
>> Who are you?
>> You have a user id number of 13307, but no username associated with it.
>>
>> Problem is my uid is 78843:
>
>
> 78843-13307=65536
>
> That's no coincidence. ncftp has apparently never been rebuilt under 
> 1.5.x to become 64 bit clean.

This is interesting. So you are saying, since ncftp is not 64 bit, and 
because my userid > 65536 that ncftp maps my uid incorrectly and cannot 
find me in /etc/passwd?
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