On 12/15/25 22:33, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Dec 15 16:53, J.H. vd Water via Cygwin wrote:
>> After restarting Cygwin ...
>>
>>  - id would show 'Users' as the primary group ...
>>    id -g would show: 545
>>    id -gn would show: Users
>>  - getent passwd | grep Henri would show: Henri:*:<...>:545:U-...
>>  - mkpasswd -l | grep Henri would show: well, see previous line
>>
>> This also applies to W11, except for the id command ...
>>
>> The id command is still showing None as the primary group ... Huh?
>>
>> What did I miss? (why has not anyone else been complaining about this?)
> 
> This has been broken since 2022-12-02, but apparently not many people
> are actually using this feature.
> 
> I have a patchset in the loop which is awaiting review:
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2025q4/014386.html
> 
> If it's ok, it will land in the next Cygwin version.

 - https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2025q4/014485.html

> v2: Try to improve commit messages, add patch fixing primary group
>     override for local accounts on domain member machines to the
>     patchset.

YES! (v1 gave me a headache)

(I verified the patchset against 3.7)

Regards,

Henri

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