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From:	Amit RATHEE <amit DOT rathee AT st DOT com>
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Subject:	RE: permission denied for Remsh on Windows 2000 Server
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:51:07 +0530
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SO you suggest me what to do?

With Warm Regards,
Amit 

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of
Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:05 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: permission denied for Remsh on Windows 2000 Server


El Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:44:34 +0530, Amit RATHEE escribi¨® en el mensaje 
<000001c3c48e$f88dd270$c09601ca AT noida DOT dlh DOT st DOT com>:

> Hi,
>
> I have a domain with many users and I try to enumerate the userid .It
> comes
> out to be 193456 by cygwin.Now I delete the entries from passwd file and
> make the UID very short i.e. 19 and when I log in as user it shows me the
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
          Holy Mother of the Deity!

> "PERMISSION DENIED".
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     Phew! That was close!

> Everything works well if I do the same above activities with the uid 
> less than the 65356 no. generated by cygwin.
>

If you read the contents of /etc/passwd, you'll notice that cygwin uses 
the UID numbers generated by Windows, you just can't go about putting in 
anything you like there. On the other hand 19 is a system reserved UID, 
both in Windows *and* Unix; you may use it but you will be opening a 
security hole big enough to drive the Titanic through your system without 
knocking an iceberg.

Cheers

Alejo

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