SO you suggest me what to do? With Warm Regards, Amit
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alejandro Lopez-Valencia Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: permission denied for Remsh on Windows 2000 Server El Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:44:34 +0530, Amit RATHEE escribió en el mensaje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 -- 乾坤一滴 -- 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/
