Jira (PUP-5388) Puppet `user` provider fails on Windows when hostname is longer than allowed netbios name

[Zee Alexander (JIRA)]

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Zee Alexander created an issue   Puppet / PUP-5388 Puppet `user` provider fails on Windows when hostname is longer than allowed netbios name Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2015/10/15 2:06 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Zee Alexander In Windows-land, there is a maximum hostname length for a netbios name (think of netbios as windows zeroconf name resolution). If you pick a hostname that's longer than that limit, a shortened version is used as the netbios name. This is fine in Windows-land, although not best practice. That being said, there's nothing "not allowed" about it. However, puppet doesn't like it. Try setting a name longer than the maximum and do puppet resource user. You'll get errors like this: C:\Users\Administrator>net user /ADD fundamentalswindows PuppetLabs1 The command completed successfully. C:\Users\Administrator>puppet resource user fundamentalswindows Error: Could not run: Could not resolve name: Users The bug is likely wider than simply running puppet resource but unfortunately I don't have time to investigate further. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.11#64026-sha1:78f6ec4) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.