Topic: Another user story

[Sparcman]

Hello everybody !

I'm using the SME-Server 6.0 on my network in order to replace an old and ill Netscape SuiteSpot mail server. I've blocked by a problem that can't be resolved by the answer here in the forum ...
I can't create a user if it was already removed from the server, i have tried the /sbin/e-smith/db accounts delete XXXXX but it's still saying that the acount exists on the server.
I've dumped the ldap database in order to see if the account is still there, but it's not here. Also looked on the /etc/passwd and /home/e-smith/accounts , but no way.
So where can i found this account in order to make things work ?
Thanks a lot for your help.

Cem

[Boris]

Do you use the same name for any of the ibays or group name?
It may cause it too.

[Sparcman]

No, i don't use ibays or group name for now.
There's only individual users for the mail.

At the first try to create the deleted account, the error was that the "xxxx" account was in the user-delete  table or something like this...
Hope that this will help .

[chris burnat]

/home/e-smith/accounts
Try to comment lines referring to deleted users (they are still there) or deleted groups, even pseudonyms.  It works for me on Vs5.6, did not try on Vs6 yet. Make a copy of the original file to be on the safe side before editing....

[Sparcman]

The problematic user is not in the /home/e-smith/accounts file..... I've seen this kind of trouble on the previous version of e-smith but it's seems it's different on the 6.0    .

[icemannz]

/sbin/e-smith/db accounts delete username
try this worked for me on version 6

[analucius]

Hi,

Have recently upgraded from SME 5.6 to 6.0u. Ran into this issue as I did ealier with the 5.6 box. Hmm.

I solved it last time with deleting the user from shell:
userdel [user]

For some reason however this time around the system somehow created my first 2 users as groups too!!!!

Therefore I solved it by doing:
groupdel [user1 that gave me trouble]
groupdel [user2 that gave me trouble]

And now I am happily recreating these accounts with the Lazy-Admin-Tools in the background.

Aint life charming. (spent only 5 hours figuring this one out)

Morten