Jira (PUP-1991) Usernames > 13 characters may not resolve properly from their SID on Windows

[Joshua Cooper (JIRA)]

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Joshua Cooper commented on an issue   Re: Usernames > 13 characters may not resolve properly from their SID on Windows To verify, grab an MSI built by http://jenkins-legacy.delivery.puppetlabs.net/job/Windows%20Polling%20Build%20(stable)/. Make sure the puppet-win32-ruby repo includes the commit referenced in the PR above. Install the MSI, make sure you can add the Guest account to the local Administrators group. user { 'Guest': groups => ['Administrators'] } The Guest SID is not long enough to completely verify this issue, but it will exercise this code path and ensure nothing is broken. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1991 Usernames > 13 characters may not resolve properly from their SID on Windows Due to a bug in an old version of the win32-security gem that we use (0.1.4), an issue cropped up on a customer site when managing groups. For that particular issue, some domain users were being added to a group managed by Puppet, and because the names were greater than 13 characters, an exception was being thrown because the buffer allocated for LookupA... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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.