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

[Ethan Brown (JIRA)]

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Ethan Brown commented on PUP-5388   Re: Puppet `user` provider fails on Windows when hostname is longer than allowed netbios name Windows user names are limited to 20 characters and the hostname doesn't have any bearing there. https://serverfault.com/questions/105142/windows-server-2008-r2-change-the-maximum-username-length Puppet works just fine with 20 character user names C:\Windows\system32>puppet resource user abcdefghijklmnopqrsu ensure=present Notice: /User[abcdefghijklmnopqrsu]/ensure: created user { 'abcdefghijklmnopqrsu': ensure => 'present', } And doesn't allow 21 character names: C:\Windows\system32>puppet resource user abcdefghijklmnopqrstu ensure=present Error: Puppet is not able to create/delete domain users with the user resource. Wrapped exception: (in OLE method `SetInfo': ) OLE error code:8007089A in Active Directory The specified username is invalid.   HRESULT error code:0x80020009 Exception occurred. Error: /User[abcdefghijklmnopqrstu]/ensure: change from absent to present failed : Puppet is not able to create/delete domain users with the user resource. user { 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstu': ensure => 'absent', } Same as with the built-in net command: C:\Users\Administrator>net user /add abcdefghijklmnopqrst The command completed successfully. That also fails with 21 character names: C:\Users\Administrator>net user /add abcdefghijklmnopqrstu The syntax of this command is:   NET USER [username [password | *] [options]] [/DOMAIN] username {password | *} /ADD [options] [/DOMAIN] username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN] username [/TIMES:{times | ALL}] username [/ACTIVE: {YES | NO}] Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.