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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:33:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: Bug in id command (when using the descr schema - Ch3 UG) ?
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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.


Corinna

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