On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > we use HYPER-V virtual machines on Windows 10 and Windows 11. It seems > they use a "special" kind of group called 'Virtual Machines', which > Cygwin (3.6.5) /bin/getent cannot lookup: > > getent group 'Virtual Machines' > <nothing> > > Does anyone have ideas or clues how to get getent group to work with > this kind of Windows group? > > We want the Cygwin gid for that group, and use Cygwin commands to work > with those files...
Déjà vu 1. Please read https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-July/258505.html 2. Try this: getent group "NT VIRTUAL MACHINE+Virtual Machines" For me, with default (empty, except comments) /etc/nsswitch.conf, it does not work. Which I consider a bug. Aurélien -- Aurélien Couderc <[email protected]> Big Data/Data mining expert, chess enthusiast -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
