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Subject: HYPER-V VMs: Cygwin /bin/getent group 'Virtual Machines' cannot find
the group
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From: Martin Wege via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Hello,

we use HYPER-V virtual machines on Windows 10 and Windows 11. It seems
they use a "special" kind of group called 'Virtual Machines', which
Cygwin (3.6.5) /bin/getent cannot lookup:

getent group 'Virtual Machines'
<nothing>

Does anyone have ideas or clues how to get getent group to work with
this kind of Windows group?

We want the Cygwin gid for that group, and use Cygwin commands to work
with those files...

Thanks,
Martin

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