Re: SFTP via PASE - No user exists for uid 356

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

This usually happens because PASE carries over an old AIX limitation of 
8 characters in a userid.  You can eliminate that limitation by doing 
the following:

ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(PASE_USRGRP_LIMITED) VALUE(N) LEVEL(*SYS)

You may have to sign off and on again to pick up the change.  This turns 
off the 8 character userid limitation, and will work perfectly with SFTP 
(and other SSH tools -- and YES, SFTP _is_ SSH, despite your reply to 
another poster).

However, if you are running anything that relies on the AIX 8 character 
limit being in place (something besides SFTP/SSH which does not) this 
variable might result in "unexpected results".  I have not yet run into 
this myself -- but I thought it might be worth mentioning.

Using a userid that's 8 characters or shorter is another way to work 
around this -- but IMHO, that's an ugly "fix."

-SK

On 10/22/2015 1:46 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:
> I'm converting an FTP script job to SFTP using PASE.
> User, passwords, ip, etc all remain the same, from what the vendor has told us.
> I'm receiving the below error message.
> No user exists for uid 356
> Is there a reason a user would work for FTP and not SFTP.
>
> Thank You
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