I had the same issue. It seems to be related to what /usr/bin/getent returns for the group name so that you end up trying to add to the group "root" rather than "Administrators". I had to hack /usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh in a couple of places to finally make it work for me:
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