Public bug reported:
Thanks to nss, there are many ways for a user account to exist.
If you have user accounts authenticated with LDAP (say), and use nss
tables other than passwd to store user information, then you find that
the system automatically creates an entry in the user account database
on login. This is handy: it means the user gets listed by lightdm in the
greeter, for example, and things like background and keyboard prefs can
be known to the greeter. It's all good.
However, these users cannot be deleted. If you use the accounts-daemon
from the control center to remove them, you get this error:
Failed to delete user
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: running '/usr/sbin/userdel'
failed: /usr/sbin/userdel returned an error (1): userdel: cannot remove entry
'tbushnell' from /etc/passwd
And alas, the user then stays in the system database.
Please make it possible to remove users from the system database even if
deluser and userdel don't work on them.
** Affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Can't remove user if they're not in /etc/passwd
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