adding user account using pw

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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
 
Have a look at the /etc/passwd file. You can use vipw to safely edit it.
 
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.
 
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.
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From pw(8).
 
Or look into the man files of any of these utilities:

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