On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM Aurélien Couderc wrote: > I think the problem is that Cygwin does not want to list accounts from > "NT SERVICE" and "NT AUTHORITY", except you prefix that with "+". And > that makes me mad, because it sucked up the time of around 25 students > here for 90 mins in the class to find THAT solution. The professor > KNEW the solution, but made it a group exercise for us to figure this > bug out.
I'm not sure if you are saying that the "+" separator character is a bug? If that's what you are saying, then no, it's not a bug and is in fact documented: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-how Excerpt: "Dependent on the domain membership of the account, and dependent of the machine being a domain member or not, the user and group names will be generated using a domain prefix and a separator character between domain and account name. The separator character is the plus sign, +." I have often found that frustration can be ameliorated by reading the documentation. Bill -- 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
