> Do you login with your Microsoft account? I am logged into my workstation using the id "DOW\U074036". Of course the services I mentioned to not run under my ID, but instead under "SYSTEM" (except sshd, which uses privsep)
> Is 1125370 your primary group id? Can you please paste the output of `id'? No, it is not my primary group ID...instead it is my uid (see below). Here are the first few lines of my "id" output (the entire output is huge, as we make excessive use of AD groups here): uid=1125370(U074036) gid=1049089(Domain Users) groups=1049089(Domain Users),197609(EW54384R82P30V+Debugger Users),197617(EW54384R82P30V+DorincoServerAdmins),197619(EW54384R82P30V+Offer Remote Assistance Helpers),555(Remote Desktop Users),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(CONSOLE LOGON),11(Authenticated Users),15(This Organization),66048(LOCAL),1275934(InternetUsers),1360436(VPNUsers),1716061(CRM-SHARE-FC),1059330(ep-fc),1062240(ps-sixsigma-change),1882511(TDCC-Users),1716058(CRM-DB-FC),1854531(app-inst-acrobatpro-4),1241820(synergyadm44-chg),2261836(GDC_DR-SHR),1328857(FsmUsers1-G),1058762(Dow-Chem-Emp-List),2269908(GRP-WEB-SHR),18896 ....and an abbreviated listing from $ /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/whoami /user /groups /fo list USER INFORMATION ---------------- User Name: dow\u074036 SID: S-1-5-21-1060284298-861567501-682003330-76794 GROUP INFORMATION ----------------- Group Name: Everyone Type: Well-known group SID: S-1-1-0 Attributes: Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group Group Name: EW54384R82P30V\Debugger Users Type: Alias SID: S-1-5-21-2043008819-1135015519-32816079-1001 Attributes: Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group Group Name: EW54384R82P30V\DorincoServerAdmins Type: Alias SID: S-1-5-21-2043008819-1135015519-32816079-1009 Attributes: Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group Group Name: EW54384R82P30V\Offer Remote Assistance Helpers Type: Alias SID: S-1-5-21-2043008819-1135015519-32816079-1011 Attributes: Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group Group Name: BUILTIN\Administrators Type: Alias SID: S-1-5-32-544 Attributes: Group used for deny only Group Name: BUILTIN\Remote Desktop Users Type: Alias SID: S-1-5-32-555 Attributes: Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group Group Name: BUILTIN\Users Type: Alias SID: S-1-5-32-545 Attributes: Mandatory group, Enabled by default, Enabled group Group Name: NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE Type: Well-known group > Stopping the terminal and restarting cygserver is not sufficient? > Also, does this also happen if you don't start cygserver at all? I've not tried either of these ... and I'm not sure if it happens at every reboot now or not (I rarely reboot). I'll see if I can reproduce it. > When the problem occurs, can you provide an strace from id? > > $ strace -o id.trace /usr/bin/id Will do if I can get it to reproduce. Will try later today, I have "day job" stuff to do at the moment.