Problems with recreating administrator

[jaredroussel]

I once created a DA administrator by the name of 'testuser'. I deleted this account in order to later recreate it, and now when I try to create 'testuser' again it tells me:

Cannot Create Account
That username already exists on the system

I previously read the post where someone said to remove the applicable entries from /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow. This was intuitive to me to do so, so I had already done this as soon as I encountered the error and have verified that all user entries are removed for this account. Still, the same error persists.

Any ideas?

Does DA in fact read directly from /etc/passwd for its users or does it have another means of storing the usernames it creates?

 

[nobaloney]

DA reads and uses /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group.

But it also has it's own files.

I'm not sure what it tests.

You might want to write to DA support and ask them.

Jeff

 

[jaredroussel]

Here was the response that fixed it:

Hello,

DA reads indirectly from the /etc/passwd file. It does so via the getpwnam command which is the system level function (kernel) that reads the /etc/passwd file. It's possible that the system command is a bit out of sync with the actual file.

If you edit the /etc/passwd file with the "vipw" command, once you save the file, it should trigger a re-sync with the system.

So basically, type:

vipw
press 'i' to go into insert mode.
Press space to add a space.
Press ctrl-c to exit insert mode.
Press delete to delete the space.
Press shift-Z twice to save and exit.

Thank you,

John