Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/12/10:03:15
> ># Before recreating /etc/passwd
> >$ id
> >uid=400(fischron) gid=401(mkpasswd)
> >groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(mkgroup_l_d),401(
> mkpasswd)
> >
> ># After recreating /etc/passwd
> >$ id
> >uid=121833(fischron) gid=10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> >groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(mkgroup_l_d)
> >
> >I guess that the change in uid causes ssh to not to recognize me
> >anymore.
> >
> >What's the best way to deal with this situation? Do I have
> to recreate
> >id_rsa
> >and id_rsa.pub (and redistribute my public key to all sites I need
> >access to)?
>
>
> 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.
> You'll
> probably find that you need to change the ownership of files
> in your home
> directory (at least) to enable public key authentication again.
You mean: changing all files to owner 121833? That is: Should I do this:
chown -R 121833 ~
But for the test of ssh, wouldn't it make more sense to chown the id_rsa
file instead? Note that on my system, it is not in ~/.ssh, but in
/cygdrive/h/.ssh. So I did a
chown 121833 /cygdrive/h/.ssh/id_rsa
but ssh still fails.
Ronald
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