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RE: ssh ceased to work after recreation of /etc/passwd


----Original Message----
>From: FischRon.external@infineon.com
>Sent: 12 July 2005 15:01

>> 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.



  400 is a local RID.  121833 is a domain RID.  Were you logged on as a
local user previously, and now you're logged on as a domain user?



    cheers,
      DaveK
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