On Jan 10 20:28, Charles Hedrick wrote: > On Jan 10, 2019, at 12:57 PM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > Well, it should. What happens is this: After asking the non-AD LDAP > server for the account name, it asks the account fetching algorithm for > that name from scratch. This depends on the /etc/nsswitch.conf > settings, of course (*). Assuming "passwd: files db", it first checks > the local /etc/passwd file for a matching entry for that account name, > then the OS, preferring AD on an AD member machine, then local SAM. > > In my scenario there’s nothing in /etc/passwd, AD, or SAM for most users, but they are all available from LDAP. Sure there's nothing in /etc/passwd. The file is created by *you* on demand, not automatically by Cygwin (except on older releases). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer