[LUNI] userdel, useradd madness

Trev Peterson trev at advanced-reality.com
Wed Jul 25 17:20:55 CDT 2007


Are you sure there is not already a user w/ uid 515?

	Trev

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 14:26 -0700, Richard Reina wrote:
> I am having problems with userdel and useradd on my Centos master NIS server . If I do:
> 
> #:userdel kellie
> and then:
> #:useradd -u 515 kellie
> I get:
> useradd: user kellie exist.
> Despite there being no entry for her in /etc/passwd, /etc/group, or /etc/shadow and no home directory for her.  Can anyone help me shed some light on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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Trev Peterson
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