Since I can't reproduce this problem, would you mind trying to run getent under strace? It would be helpful to get 2 strace outputs for the same account, one working, one failing. Call it like this: $ strace -o getent-1.trace getent passwd <account> Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer --------------- Attached. Thank you -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: getent-NOTworking.trace Type: application/octet-stream Size: 31934 bytes Desc: getent-NOTworking.trace URL: <http://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/attachments/20191023/d1d7986e/attachment.obj> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: getent-working.trace Type: application/octet-stream Size: 35073 bytes Desc: getent-working.trace URL: <http://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/attachments/20191023/d1d7986e/attachment-0001.obj> -------------- next part -------------- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple