Re: You don't exist

hi Charlie,

There are two userids in use here. There's the userid on your system (the one running the 'sftp' command) and there's also the userid used to log in to the remote system.

The part you are specifying on the command-line is tsu8v5s6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- that's the latter of the two. That's the userid you'll use to log in to the remote system. It's not the userid of the CURRENT system.

Unfortunately, that's not where the problem is. The problem is on the CURRENT system. sftp is looking up information about the local user -- and it's failing, because of AIX's weird 8-character limit on userid.

So you really need to use a userid that's 8-characters long. (Use profile swapping if necessary).

I seem to dimly remember someone telling me of another way to circumvent this limit (albeit with a lot of danger that it might cause problems) but I can't remember what it was. You might be able to find it in the archives.

Otherwise, create a userid with 8 or fewer characters, and use that.



On 4/28/2010 3:25 PM, Versfelt, Charles wrote:

Hi,

I hope someone can help...
I'm trying to do SFTP using QSH, getting the error "You don't exist, go away..."

Connecting to xxx.xx.xx.xxx...
You don't exist, go away!
Connection closed
Press ENTER to end terminal session.


I'm actually doing it in a CL program, here's the command:


QSH CMD('/QOpenSys/bin/sftp +
-b/home/darlene/sftpcmd.txt +
tsu8v5s6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'<mailto:tsu8v5s6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'>)

I have heard that this problem occurs when the user ID is more than 8 bytes, but that by putting the user profile ID in the QSH command in the QSH command (TSU8V5S6) in the CL program should solve that problem.

Just about all our user id's are more than 8 characters, including the one I'm calling this program from,
but we were made to understand that by pointing it to another user profile in the QSH command that would solve that problem.

Is that still the problem or might there be something else?
Please let me know if you can help, and if you need any more information.

Thanks,
Charlie Versfelt
Sr. Programmer/analyst
Myron