[LUNI] userdel, useradd madness

[Trev Peterson]

If you delete her you should not have any user with uid 515.  You can
test this by doing an useradd without the -u 515.  If it works then
there is some config file that still has the uid 515.  Alternatively it
could be the  /var/yp/<NISDOMAIN>/passwd.byname or passwd.byuid files
make it appear that kellie exists in NIS so (adduser checks NIS as well
as /etc/passwd).  Assuming this is a small network you may want to stop
the NIS server then add kellie (with the -u 515) and then restart it.

Hope this helps,

	Trev

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 14:59 -0700, Richard Reina wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.  I'm not sure I follow you.  There is only one user, kellie.  I deleted her and need to add her back and I was hoping I could do so with the same UID.  Are you saying I should not?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard

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