Changing the username on UNIX or Linux prevents the removal of metadata

Symptom

The username of the account was changed, but the UID was left the same.

Attempts to remove a branch instance (or other metadata type instances like attributes or labels) that was created under the old username results in the error:

cleartool: Error: No permission to perform operation "remove branch".
cleartool: Error: Must be one of: object creator, element owner, VOB owner, root
cleartool: Error: Unable to remove branch "sun.c@@/main/sun_branch".

Here is an example where the username was changed from jane to janed . The instance of the branch was created using jane, but then (at some later time) the username was changed to janed.

• cleartool describe of the branch instance created under the username jane
  
  sunny[vobadm]: cleartool describe -l common.h@@/main/release1
  branch "common.h@@/main/release1"
   created 02-Aug-01.15:17:39 by Jane Doe(jane.devsrc@us)
   branch type: release1
   master replica: original@/vobs/us (defaulted)
   request for mastership: allowed
   Element Protection:
     User : jane   : r--
     Group: user   : r--
     Other:          : r--
   element type: c_include
   branched from version: /main/3
  
• The branch type release1 was created by jane, but the owner's username has been change to janed as seen in the cleartool describe brtype below:
  
  sunny[vobadm]: cleartool describe -l brtype:release1  
  branch type "release1"
   created 02-Aug-01.14:58:04 by Jane Doe(jane.devsrc@us)
   master replica: original@/vobs/us
   request for mastership: allowed for branch type
   request for mastership: allowed for all instances
   owner: janed
   group: user
   scope: this VOB (ordinary type)
   constraint: one version per element