Can't add a user, exists. Can't delete does not exist.

[Robbo]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 11:23 -0400, Dave Walker wrote:
> Ok I don't know how I got into this but something is broken.  A user was 
> having account problems so I was going to just re-create the account.  I 
> deleted the princ from Kerberos, and tried deluser the_username.  I got:
> 
> linux:/# deluser tsheller
> Removing user `tsheller'...
> userdel: error deleting password entry
> userdel: error deleting shadow password entry
> done.
> 
> 
> So i try to adduser:
> 
> linux:/# adduser tsheller
> adduser: The user `tsheller' already exists.
> 
> I looked through all: passwd, passwd-, shadow, shadow- for the username 
> but none contain it.  Any ideas on how to make this work?

As your using Kerberos, do you use another method of getting usernames,
uids, etc, like LDAP or NIS?