Re: You don't exist

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahhh... I found what I was thinking of.  Here's a discussion I had 
previously about this:

http://forums.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/showthread.php?t=74651


so you should be able to eliminate the 8-character limit by doing this 
before you invoke any PASE programs:

ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(PASE_USRGRP_LIMITED) VALUE(N) REPLACE(*YES)

the variable name and value are case-sensitive, so please type them in 
all uppercase as I show.

This eliminates the 8-character restriction on the userid field -- but 
opens up a risk.  The risk is that the software you're running in PASE 
might only reserve 8 characters for userid (since that is the limit on 
AIX) and therefore if you provide 10 characters, it'll overflow memory 
and cause problems.

Fortunately, I don't think that's an issue with sftp.  Since sftp is 
cross-platform, and runs on other systems where more than 8 characters 
are allowed for the userid, I doubt very much that it'd overflow memory.

So that might be a reasonable solution for you.


On 4/28/2010 4:22 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
> 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