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

[Dave Walker]

Robbo wrote:

>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?
>
No, not yet at least.  I have LDAP on a series of test systems, but not 
the one in question about this problem.  No NIS yet as well.  I am going 
to work on that through another test system shortly.

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dave