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

[Scott Henson]

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:
>
>

What you need to do is 'getent passwd'
That command will tell you what the system sees as far as users go.  If 
you see your user in there, something other than /etc/passwd is 
providing that user.  You can check what is providing that user by 
/etc/nsswitch.conf.   Check the passwd line.  For a normal system it 
will have compat and files.  If anything else is on that line then youll 
have to remove the user from there.  If your using kerberos, you might 
see ldap on there.   Other than that, I'm not sure why you would be 
getting that error.