Topic: Removing removed users from group?

[Cyrus Bharda]

Howdy yall,

Now we have several groups and I found out that you can send an email to (name of the group)@(your domain).com and I happily added which users I wanted to be in which group.

Well ages ago I removed 2 users, properly from the users panel of the server manager, and now when I send email to the group address I get 2 bounces:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at langs.net.au.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

username@esmith.langs.net.au:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

And this is correct, there is no user account by that name, but why in gods name it it send it to it in the first place? OK so I go to the groups panel and take a look and see if I can remove the non-existant user manuall, but of course, because it doe not exist, it does not show in the groups panel when I click on the modify link for that group?

So how do I remove that non-existant accunt from the group if it does not show when i click on the modifiy for the group under the groups panel?

And from now on do I need to remove any users from the groups they are in before deleting their accounts?

Thanks for your help.

[Kelvin]

Cyrus,

If you can replicate this behaviour on another SME server, then you have probably found a bug (which should be reported to bugs@......). If it were a one off, perhaps one of the templates got changed somehow ?

Kelvin

[Terry Brummell]

Try:

/sbin/e-smith/db accounts delete xyz

where xyz is the old user account name.  I think that will remove it from it's group memberhips.

[Ray Mitchell]

Cyrus
This may have something to do with a bug in 5.5
see
http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/index.php3?op=showBug&bugID=90

or a search would have found
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=15027.msg57646#msg57646

Author: Terry Brummell (terry_AT_brummell.net)
Date:   11-15-02 22:33
From the command line try issuing a:
# /sbin/e-smith/db accounts delete xyz
where xyz is the user-deleted account
I think that should remove them from the group membership as well......


Remember to do a search first, (on all dates) and look at the bugs pages too !!
Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Cyrus Bharda]

Thanks Ray,

I did do a search but forgot to do the dates [bonks self on head]

Manually deleted the user and its works fine now, thanks for everyones help!

Cyrus Bharda

[Morten U. Hansen]

Hi,

I am at SME 5.6 and still see this same behavior. So there is evidently a bug. My situation:

Added a user X and later deleted this user. It turns up that I need a user X anyway, so I try to create a new user X. but the system gives me this error:

Error: the account "X" can't be created because there is already a user-deleted account of that name.

This is probably also the root to the problem described in this topic. Users do not get properly deleted from the system.

I hope someone takes notice and remedies the situation in subsequent rel.

Thnx

Morten