Deleting account on trusted system

[placitasmd]

When trying to delete an account on a trusted system running 11.11 a message stating "Login currently in use" is returned. Have tried with both SAM and command line using 'userdel -r loginname'. User has not logged in for several months and the system has been rebooted numerous times over the last month. Any ideas on what might be causing this and how to get around it? I know the recommendation is to disable the account instead of removing it, but we would like to get it deleted.

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

Have you tried running who(1) to see if it thinks the login is in use?

Or do you have the same UID for two users and one is still in use?

[Bill Hassell]

As Dennis mentioned, you may have two logins with the same UID. Use this command

    logins -d

to verify that there are no duplicate UIDs.

Check that there are no processes running as this user:

    ps -f -u username

You may have cron jobs or other jobs that use su or other run-as tools like sudo that are running as this user.

[placitasmd]

Who does not show the user logged in. Have not checked for duplicate UIDs but will. I don't have access to the server right now, but will check to see if the user may have some processes running under su.