Re: group '545' does not exist ?
Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <[email protected]>
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On 03/12/2025 13:50, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am probably missing something, but this seems bizarre (to me) >> >> $ id >> uid=197608(Marco) gid=197121(NESSUNO) groups=197121(NESSUNO),114(Account >> locale e membro del gruppo Administrators),544(Administrators),547(Power >> Users),545(Users),4(INTERACTIVE),66049(ACCESSO CONSOLE),11(Authenticated >> Users),15(Questa organizzazione),113(Account >> locale),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCALE),262154(Autenticazione >> NTLM),405504(Livello obbligatorio alto) >> >> >> $ newgrp 545 touch prova2 >> newgrp: group '545' does not exist >> >> $ uname -svr >> CYGWIN_NT-10.0-26200 3.6.5-1.x86_64 2025-10-09 17:21 UTC > > Please use the group name ("Users" in your case) and not the numeric GID. > > If you really need to use the numeric gid, then you can use $ getent > group 545 | awk -F ':' '{ print $1 } ' # to convert it to a group name > (see comment below about localised Windows builtin group names), and > then plug that into newgrp: > $ newgrp "$(getent group 545 | awk -F ':' '{ print $1 } ')" touch prova2 # > > BTW: There is one issue with this: Windows builtin account names > (users+groups) can be localised, e.g. English gid=545 is "Users", > while in German it's "Benutzer". > > ---- > > Bye, > Roland Thanks as usual PEBCAK -- 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