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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: ncftp: Who are you? Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 14:59:50 -0700 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <20040507211814.GO26372@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) In-Reply-To: <20040507211814.GO26372@cygbert.vinschen.de> Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 7 11:26, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> When I use ncftp I get the following: >> >> Who are you? >> You have a user id number of 13307, but no username associated with it. >> >> Problem is my uid is 78843: > > > 78843-13307=65536 > > That's no coincidence. ncftp has apparently never been rebuilt under > 1.5.x to become 64 bit clean. This is interesting. So you are saying, since ncftp is not 64 bit, and because my userid > 65536 that ncftp maps my uid incorrectly and cannot find me in /etc/passwd? -- One-seventh of your life is spent on Monday. -- 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/