Ambiguous users and user groups

When resolving user and user group naming conflicts, you must be able to properly identify which user and group name you are specifying.

Logging in

To log on with an ambiguous user name, use the keysite name as part of the user logon name (for example, username<keysite-name>, where keysite-name is the site where the user was created). If you log on with an ambiguous user name without the keysite name, you get an invalid logon error. Clicking the detail displays the following error:

User name ’xxx’ is ambiguous; rename or qualify with ’<’SITE’>’ to proceed.

Using multiutil

If you need to use describe or chmaster commands to work with a user or group whose name is the same as another user or group, you must refer to their respective keysite name (originating site name).

Use the describe command to find out where the user is mastered. In this example, the keysite is the boston_hub replica:

multiutil describe -clan telecomm -site tokyo 
-family PRODA -user masako
-password secret user:jsmith<boston_hub> 

Multiutil: Mastership of ‘user:jsmith<boston_hub>’ is ‘boston_hub’.