According to this forum thread there seems to be some more problems:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3123824&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=10
I'm not 100% sure this is the same bug though.
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So I added a second user, but messed up settings, so I figured it'd be easier
just to remove the user and start over. So I delete the user from Users and
Groups, and then delete the folder in /home. Now when I go to re-create the
user it says it already exists.
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Maybe try from a terminal: sudo deluser (username)
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Forgot to mention I tried that
->The user (username) does not exist.
and yes I did replace (username) with the user name, and didn't just copy
verbatim.
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I just tried it on my system too and it won't let me readd a user that's been
deleted either. To work around, I can readd the user from the command line:
sudo adduser --ingroup (username) (username)
Yeah username twice there, since it also leaves the group behind and adduser
won't do the add if the group already exists.
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I suppose something like that. Clearly at the very least it is confusing. I dug
into it a bit more and found what the real problems is. The error it is giving
"user already exists" isn't because the user exists, but because the group they
belonged to still exists. If you click "Manage Groups" and delete the group
with the same name as the user, everything works again.
So to sum up, to really delete a user there are 3 steps: delete the user,
delete the group, delete the user's home directory.
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Have both of you checked /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group?
It does seem like a bug, but it'd be interesting to know if the user data is
still in those files.
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That's the first thing I checked actually. They're gone from passwd and shadow,
but still in group, passwd-, shadow-, and group-. The group is the one that was
making the UI tool fail.
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** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist => Low
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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[users-admin] Deleting user should clean /tmp also
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26887
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