Username still cannot contain backslashes after 9.0.6 upgrade

[hunterbuchanan]

I mentioned this issue previously on SGE: daimh/sge#43

User jgabler-hpc mentioned that this change was made and tested on OCS, and it seems that it was included in the latest 9.0.6 release. However, I'm running into the same problem.

When jobs are submitted from a user with a backslash ('') in the username, the response is: Unable to run job: Backslash ('\') not allowed in objectname.

I've also tried making a user a manager in order to run qconf -auser and add the user manually. Editing the file with the new username returns: Backslash ('\') not allowed in objectname.

[jgabler-hpc]

Hi Hunter,

the change has been done in master branch with checkin:

commit 2703cdb07b272860ce24f0c814b075784059c609
Author: Joachim Gabler <jgabler@hpc-gridware.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 16 15:57:52 2025 +0200

    EH: CS-1175 allow backslash in user names

It is part of the daily build which you can get from the download page.

It would be great to get feedback on the change.
I do not have an Active Directory set up, just tested with a username having the AD format in NIS.
Please give it a try and let us know how it goes.

Best regards,

Joachim

[ernst-bablick]

@hunterbuchanan - where you able to confirm the fix with a build that Joachim suggested?

[hunterbuchanan]

@hunterbuchanan - where you able to confirm the fix with a build that Joachim suggested?

Yes, thanks for following up. It appears the fix was successful, the lab reported that usernames with backslashes now worked without error using the nightly OCS build.

[ernst-bablick]

Thanks for the feedback. I will no close this Issue.