Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/03/18:32:53
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:43:38PM +0100, david DOT sannier AT netcourrier DOT com wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I've installed cygwin on W2K.
> My account is not local, so I've added it with
> `mkpasswd -u <username> -d <domain> >> /etc/passwd`
> This seems to work well : it adds the line
> with a user id of 109369 (=0x1AB39)
> The first time I launched a bash, "I have no name!"
> (not exactly what I expected)
> So... What does the id command print ??
> -> an uid of 43833 (Now you understand why
> I wrote the previous id in hexa) The hex
> value of 43833 is 0xAB39...
>
> I've corrected my /etc/passwd replace the
> uid by its [short] version -> works well,
> but... It doesn't seem to be a normal behavior !?
>
> Is this already known ? Has someone an explanation ?
> Is it just a storage prb of the user id or is it
> mkpasswd that does not properly deal with the sid ?
> Did I simply make a mistake ??
Nope. The datatype uid_t is equivalent to unsigned short (16bit).
The mkpasswd tool doesn't take that into account when generating
the uids, unfortunately.
Corinna
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