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I use cygwin at work to get quick access to unix tools and as an ssh terminal. I recently installed some new Cygwin packages and now when I try and open a terminal it is very slow and gives the following error:
/usr/bin/id: cannot find name for group ID 10519
I'm not sure what the error means, but it takes much longer to open a cygwin terminal now than it use to.
I finally got it working:
I was trying to get better debug output then ssh -vvv, so I tried running
/usr/sbin/sshd -d
to catch the output on screen. To my surprise, when I ran sshd like that (not as a service as I usually would with net start sshd), I could log in as any user alright.
That led me to believe that the problem lied in the way the service was set up. So I deleted the service and ran the config script again. Bam! It's done!
cygrunsrv -R sshd
ssh-host-config
# it's fixed!
Edit: It looks like that the reason is that the privilege separation user cannot be disabled in Windows. It used to be OK for me to disable that privilege separation user and still get it to work, but oh well.
Best Answer
It appears to be related to my Active Directory username or group memberships. The error went away after running the following command as per this article:
This updates the cygwin files with the latest AD user/group information.