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ssh ceased to work after recreation of /etc/passwd
- From: <FischRon dot external at infineon dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:00:47 +0200
- Subject: ssh ceased to work after recreation of /etc/passwd
Due to various problems on my system, I have recreated /etc/group and
/etc/passwd by
mkpasswd -l -c >/etc/passwd
mkgroup -l -c >/etc/group
Now ssh does not work anymore: I always get the error message
"You don't exist, go away!"
The error occurs only in Cygwin windows which I opened *after* I had
recreated
passwd and group. By comparing what the working and the non-working
case, I see
that by recreating /etc/passwd, my uid had changed:
# Before recreating /etc/passwd
$ id
uid=400(fischron) gid=401(mkpasswd)
groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(mkgroup_l_d),401(mkpasswd)
# After recreating /etc/passwd
$ id
uid=121833(fischron) gid=10513(mkgroup_l_d)
groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),10513(mkgroup_l_d)
I guess that the change in uid causes ssh to not to recognize me
anymore.
What's the best way to deal with this situation? Do I have to recreate
id_rsa
and id_rsa.pub (and redistribute my public key to all sites I need
access to)?
Ronald
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Infineon Technologies AG
IT BT CFS IKM
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Fax +49 89 234 27850
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