adding user account using pw

[sneb]

Hi,
I'm a newbie with FreeBSD. I add a new user account using pw. I decided to remove the account by using "pw userdel -n <name> -u <uid> -r" because I made a mistake with the name. When I add the user again with the same username, it says "pw: login name `fcf' already exists". And when I try to delete it again, it says "pw: user 'fcf' does not exist: No such file or directory".

Can you please help me this. Thanks

[SirDice]

Have a look at the /etc/passwd file. You can use vipw to safely edit it.

[sneb]

Thank you for the reply,
I already check /etc/passwd and the account is not there. I forgot to mention that we have an NIS server. I already checked /etc/master.passwd, /etc/passwd, /var/yp/master.passwd and /var/yp/passwd. I cannot find "fcf" account anymore but still I'm having problem with this.

[Alt]

Dont know what is this.. But i think you must try to run `pwd_mkdb` and then delete..

[SirDice]

Pw only works on the local user database:

Note that pw only operates on the local user and group files. NIS users and groups must be maintained on the NIS server.

From pw.

[DutchDaemon]

Or look into the man files of any of these utilities:

yp_mkdb ypcat ypchpass ypinit yppasswd yppush ypset
ypbind ypchfn ypchsh ypmatch yppoll ypserv ypwhich