Topic: A user-deleted account of that name

[floreseo]

Hi,

Recently I deleted a user by mistake.  Now I'm trying to add the user again and I get an error saying:

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

How can I reinstate this user?

Thanks in advance.

 

[floreseo]

Problem Solved.

Sorry Someone already asked this issue, but no fix was provided.  After a little reseach I was able to fix my problem.  Since I can not delete this Post.

I'll share with you my fix.

My particular problem lies on the sip-pbx server software running with the SME.  If you are using a sip-pbx with the SME then if you have an account on the SME and at the sip-pbx end, then both accounts should be delete.  If you delete the SME account but leave the sip-pbx account active you won't be able to reinstate the user again as an sme user.

See you next post!

[aux2006]

i encounter this problem how do you solved this?

aux

[bpivk]

i encounter this problem how do you solved this?

Read his last post. He answered your question.

[aux2006]

i encounter this problem how do you solved this?

Read his last post. He answered your question.

what is this sip-pbx?

i look at the processes it seems i can't find with that name...

[bpivk]

Ok so you have another problem.

Try this

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signal-event user-delete <username>
db accounts delete <username>

Then recreate the user.

[michaelzeke]

I had the same problem and the way it worked for me was to do this:

userdel (user)
db accounts delete user

then rmdir /home/e-smith/files/user/username

then useradd user
passwd user


after this i went back into sme server server-manager and reset the password there as well.
I had a problem with an account just not accepting any password i set and this seems to be the only way I could delete and recreate the user.

Hope it helps some what!