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IttayD
IttayD

Reputation: 29113

p4 client returns with credential mismatch error

When I use p4 client I get a "credential mismatch" error: 

~$ p4 client
credential mismatch: P4USER specified abadescu, p4filter command line specified idror
Partner exited unexpectedly.
Perforce client error:
    Partner exited unexpectedly.
~$ echo $P4USER

~$ P4USER=idror p4 client
credential mismatch: P4USER specified abadescu, p4filter command line specified idror
Partner exited unexpectedly.
Perforce client error:
    Partner exited unexpectedly.

using p4 -u idror client does open the editor, but after I save the modifications don't seem to affect p4 sync or p4 -u idror sync

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1876

Answers (2)

Dariusz Arciszewski
Dariusz Arciszewski

Reputation: 21

You need to remove temporary the P4CONFIG from environment variables. And most of all you need to have loaded ssh-agent that has key for user abadescu. If you don't use ssh keys to authenticate remove them from chain

So:

$ export -n P4CONFIG
$ ssh-add -D # if needed

And then set client, user, port in the p4 command like:

$ p4 -c client_name -u abadescu -p port_string_here

Upvotes: 0

Bryan Pendleton
Bryan Pendleton

Reputation: 16339

That "credential mismatch" message is not a Perforce message, but rather is coming from some locally-customized configuration at your site.

Perhaps you have a trigger, for example a 'form-out' trigger.

Your trigger might use a locally-developed program named 'p4filter'.

Or perhaps you have a client-side wrapper for the 'p4' command, which might use a locally-developed client-side program named 'p4filter'.

You should ask the Perforce administrator at your site for help with resolving this.

Upvotes: 1

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