[Bug 239069] Re: Can not delete new user which use "adduser"

[WickedMonkey]

Looks like I've run into this bug as well. Ubuntu server 10.04, 64 bit
(installed from an iso image downloaded 27/01/2012 from ubuntu.com).

I logged in to my box using my admin account and then ran 'sudo su' to change to root. To create the [new user] account I:
1. Created linux user [new user] ('useradd [new user]').
2. Created samba user [new user] ('smbpasswd -a [new user]').
3. Wanted to test the account so I 'su [new user]' then 'exit' back to my admin/root shell.
4. I realised I'd mis-type the [new user] username so deleted samba account ('smbpasswd -x [new user]') and tried to delete the linux account 'userdel [new user]'. Got error 'userdel: user [new user] is currently logged in'. I exited the terminal ssh session and logged back in but got same error. 

'ps -U [new user] -a' gives me:

  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 2837 pts/0    00:00:00 su
 2838 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
 2860 pts/0    00:00:00 ps

If I kill these processes, my admin/root session ends and when I log
back in I get the same 'userdel: user [new user] is currently logged in'
error. Running 'who' doesn't show [new user] logged in, just the admin
account I'm logged in as.

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Title:
  Can not delete new user which use "adduser"

Status in “adduser” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  A post from Cjacker show me that bug, To review this issue, you can
  doing  follow this steps:

  1,    sudo adduser test                  ---- then you got a new user
  named test (also password)

  2,    use Alt + Ctrl + F2  change to a terminal login as test.

  3,    logoff from this terminal

  4,    back to your main terminal or X, and use deluser / userdel to delete user "test", then, here we get is a system warning:
          "can`t delete user test: user is currently log in "

  this maybe a bug , maybe a policies for something , maybe system does
  not update wtmp status unhesitating :)

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