user already exists?

potato

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Hi,

i have a really big problem.
Ou server went down 2 days ago because of the update of directadmin to 1.30.1.
Appearantly it conflicts with suphp.
Thats over know, we have formatted and reinstalled centos & directadmin.
We had backed up all the /home account folders and the /var/lib/mysql folder.
A technician tried something to import all the accounts, but it didn't work, so i have to manually recreate account per account and replace the home account folder. Also the mysql db's are there, but they have no db-user, so we have to recreate them also.

For this, no problem.

But i cant create the most of the accounts. When i try, i get the message user already exists or something like that.
I know the technician had tried something with a config file of the old server, so maybe there are left old pieces that has to be deleted?

Can somebody helps me please, im really desperate :(

friendely greetings,
tom
 
You will need to delete the users you are trying to create from the files:

/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow
 
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