On 2023-09-21 23:58, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
Does Cygwin have a shell (e.g. bash) API to lookup the Windows SID for
a given Cygwin user or group name?
/usr/bin/getent usersid thisisausername

Forget Windows! Think Unix:

$ getent passwd $USER   # sanitized output:
$USER:*:$UID:545:U-$HOSTNAME/$USER,S-1-5-21-...-...-...-1001:$HOME:/bin/bash

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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