Topic: deleted users

[avraham]

we deleted a user and cannot create the user again . Any Ideas

[dsemuk]

The commands in this thread should get the user off your system so you can recreate said user.

You may also need to look in the bug tracker as well.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30763.0

Dave

[avraham]

The commands in this thread should get the user off your system so you can recreate said user.

You may also need to look in the bug tracker as well.

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30763.0

Dave

Thanks for the reply but it still didn't work. this is the error message

account "xxxx" can't be created because there is already a system account of that name.

[JonB]

The error tells you everything. The name you are trying to use is already in use on the server as a system name.

The system names already used are root, admin, primary, shared, mail, ftp, proxy, www, wpad and the hostname you have called the server.

If you let us know what name you are trying to use then we can tell you whether you can use it or not.

Jon

[gooseman]

When you delete a user, all the system does is: 'mark' the user as 'deleted.  You have to navigate and edit a few files in the //home/usrs directory, and delete the entries of the username in order to recreate a user with the same name

[william_syd]

When you delete a user, all the system does is: 'mark' the user as 'deleted.  You have to navigate and edit a few files in the //home/usrs directory, and delete the entries of the username in order to recreate a user with the same name

Using SME 7.0 Final

Add user ftp

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Error: the account "ftp" can't be created because there is already a system account of that name.

Add user aa (which already exist)

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

Remove user aa then add user aa

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Successfully created user account.

[CharlieBrady]

When you delete a user, all the system does is: 'mark' the user as 'deleted.

That is false.

You have to navigate and edit a few files in the //home/usrs directory, and delete the entries of the username in order to recreate a user with the same name

That is also false. There is no /home/usrs directory.

Perhaps you could detail exactly what you have found needs to be deleted from what files. Perhaps there is a bug. If so, please report via the Bug Tracker.

[william_syd]

I'm not sure on the interaction of users created via the command line and those created via server manager.

Maybe at the command line do

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userdel XXX

Edit: Having a little play

Just created a user with

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useradd idiot

I then tried creating the same user, "idiot" via the server manager.

 

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Error: the account "idiot" can't be created because there is already a system account of that name.

Very interesting.....

[mmccarn]

Using SME 7.0 Final

Add user ftp

You can't add a user named "ftp" - it's a system account.

I've detailed as far as I can figure out how "system accounts" work.  Detailed notes can be found here: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32869.msg139410#msg139410