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

Mon Jul 21 14:19:02 GMT 2025

Am 21.07.25 um 14:53 schrieb Aurélien Couderc via Cygwin:
> I installed MariaDB (mysql fork) on my system, which per task manager
> runs as it's own user "MariaDB".
>> But Cygwin 3.7 from today cannot see the user "MariaDB", both getent
> passwd MariaDB and getent passwd return no lines.
>> Any clues what I am doing wrong?

Did you create a local /etc/passwd file, say, through mkpasswd? If you 
did, maybe long ago -- maybe you need to re-run it and update your 
passwd file.
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/mkpasswd.html