On 12/01/2026 11:43, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Jan 12 10:49, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
On 12/01/2026 10:45, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
On Jan 9 21:16, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
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$ cat passwd
Marco:*:197609:545:U-DESKTOP-OHBRJA7\marco,S-1-5-21-2503904838-1031341892-1080375727-1001:/home/marco:/bin/bash
$ id
uid=197609(Marco) gid=197121(None)
groups=197121(None),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE
LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization),113(Local
account),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCAL),262154(NTLM
Authentication),401408(Medium Mandatory Level)
$ uname -svr
CYGWIN_NT-10.0-26200 3.6.6-1.x86_64 2026-01-09 17:39 UTC
Weird. I just tried it on my machine with both methods for local SAM
accounts, either changing the entry in /etc/passwd, or adding <cygwin
group="users"/> to the local SAM comment field, and in both cases the
primary group of my account is changed to the builtin "Users" group in
Cygwin.
Sure your /etc/nsswitch.conf is correct?
It was some glitch.
Closed again all processes and now it works as expected
Oh, I'm glad to read that.
Thanks,
Corinna
I was able to reproduce the glitch
1) REBOOT the Laptop
2) Starting automatically the Services
/usr/sbin/cygserver
/usr/sbin/sshd -D
3) open a Terminal
$ id
uid=197608(Marco) gid=197121(NESSUNO)
groups=197121(NESSUNO),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(ACCESSO
CONSOLE),11(Authenticated Users),15(Questa organizzazione),113(Account
locale),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCALE),262154(Autenticazione
NTLM),401408(Livello obbligatorio medio)
Marco@DESKTOP-L2T1NQ9:~
4) Shutdown the services, and close all processes
5) open a Terminal
$ id
uid=197608(Marco) gid=545(Users)
groups=545(Users),197121(NESSUNO),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(ACCESSO
CONSOLE),11(Authenticated Users),15(Questa organizzazione),113(Account
locale),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCALE),262154(Autenticazione
NTLM),401408(Livello obbligatorio medio)
Maybe Cygserver start earlier than some Windows process that should
properly identify the User ?
Regards
Marco
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