On 7/29/2010 7:48 AM, Gunnar Krull wrote: > Hi all, > > I have run into a problem creating cross realm users for our cell. It all > goes > fine until the username exceeds a certain length. For example: > > pts createuser -name [email protected] -cell informatik.uni- > goettingen.de > User [email protected] has id 1638879 > > pts createuser -name [email protected] -cell informatik.uni- > goettingen.de > pts: Badly formed name (group prefix doesn't match owner?) ; unable to create > user [email protected] > > The documentation states that the username can consists of up to 63 > characters. Thus I presume that the cell name is added to the username which > indeed would exactly reach the length limit. Is that presumption correct?
It is roughly correct. The cell name is not transmitted as part of the RPC to the pt server but when the foreign cell group entry is constructed the name ends up exceeding the limit. There is no workaround with the existing design of the pt server database. An alternative pt server database schema could be devised and implemented that would permit the full 63 characters to be used for foreign users. Jeffrey Altman
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