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RE: ssh ceased to work after recreation of /etc/passwd
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:14:32 +0100
- Subject: RE: ssh ceased to work after recreation of /etc/passwd
----Original Message----
>From: FischRon.external@infineon.com
>Sent: 12 July 2005 15:01
>> The above error occurs in ssh-keygen.c when getpwuid(getuid)
>> fails. It
>> appears Cygwin still thinks of you as uid 400. Just try stopping all
>> Cygwin shells and services and then restarting (via
>> cygwin.bat).
>
> It was the other way around. I happened to have an "old" open shell
> where id was still seen as 400, and *there* did ssh work; but when
> I closed the window and opened a new shell, my numeric user id is
> now 121833 and ssh does not work anymore at all.
400 is a local RID. 121833 is a domain RID. Were you logged on as a
local user previously, and now you're logged on as a domain user?
cheers,
DaveK
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