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Subject: Re: User "MariaDB" not seen by Cygwin, but it is there
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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

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