Cannot Create Account Details That username already exists on the system

Martyn Day

Martyn Day

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That username already exists on the system

anyidea what files i need to remove/edit? i've found 2 folders relating to the user, but still gives this error, and can't find anything in google or help database..
 
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If that user is really not supposed to be on the server then remove the user from these files:

/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group/
/etc/gshadow
 
floyd said:
If that user is really not supposed to be on the server then remove the user from these files:

/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group/
/etc/gshadow
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Only had to delete from /etc/passwd and it worked fine, couldn't get access to shadow for some reason... and didnt have gshadow installed.. lol

thanks floyd.
 
Only had to delete from /etc/passwd and it worked fine
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Ok but you were warned.

Adding a user adds to those 4 files. When deleting a user you should delete from those 4 files. I do not know what the adduser program will do when usernames already exist in the other files.
 
floyd said:
Ok but you were warned.

Adding a user adds to those 4 files. When deleting a user you should delete from those 4 files. I do not know what the adduser program will do when usernames already exist in the other files.
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why does DA not remove those itself?
 
group xxxxx already exists

group xxxxx already exists. Please chose a different username.
 
File '/home/tmp/slaytsweb/kasatas3.tar.gz' was 1093721280 bytes in size, as read by root.
Unable to read the backed up user.usage file: Unable to get Lock on file:
open error for /home/kasatas3/backups/backup/user.usage.lock: No such file or directory
/home/kasatas3/backups/backup: No such file or directory
 
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