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From: Mark Bradshaw <bradshaw AT staff DOT crosswalk DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: openssh issue with UID's over 65535
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:12:00 -0500
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I have an issue with openssh and UID's over 65535.  Similar things were
discussed a bit back, but this is slightly different.  Seems that sshd will
die when a user with a UID too high logs in.  The root cause of this is
cygwin's use of an unsigned short for uid_t, instead of an integer.  As the
UID goes through the ssh server, session.c calls get_last_login_time
(sshlogin.c) with an integer variable.  When it hits get_last_login_time,
however, it's squashed into a uid_t, which is too small for it.  The uid
changes and problems occur.

I'm guessing it wouldn't be too swift to just change the definition in
types.h.  That oughta break lotsa stuff.  Is there some clear path to
getting uid_t changed to an int, or is there a different/better fix for
this?

Mark

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