On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:43:02AM +0100, 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:
> > [...]
> > $ 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.
Unfortunately, it still doesn't work for me.
$ getent passwd ef
ef:*:197609:545:U-DRACO\ef,S-1-5-21-654044248-2859118421-879999417-1001:/home/ef:/bin/tcsh
$ id
uid=197609(ef) gid=197121(NESSUNO)
gruppi=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)
$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree.
# To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. For a description
# see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch
#
# Defaults:
# passwd: files db
# group: files db
# db_enum: cache builtin
# db_home: /home/%U
# db_shell: /bin/bash
# db_gecos: <empty>
db_shell: /bin/tcsh
--
Enrico
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