Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: Amit RATHEE To: Subject: RE: permission denied for Remsh on Windows 2000 Server Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:51:07 +0530 Message-ID: <000001c3c498$654994e0$c09601ca@noida.dlh.st.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hBHCMoUj014201 SO you suggest me what to do? With Warm Regards, Amit -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Alejandro Lopez-Valencia Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:05 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.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@noida.dlh.st.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 -- ǬÀ¤Ò»µÎ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/