Trying to remove user, the bring them back

I had a user who was laid off, then removed from Teamsite, and now needs to be added again. I want to use their original username.

I deleted the user from Windows 2000, then ran "iwuser -d duluth\testuser". I then tried "iwuser -c duluth\testuser" to see if it's been deleted correctly but it comes back with "ERROR - unable to add entry to database: Item already exists"

What am I doing wrong? How do I delete, then recreate the same user later.

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Migrateduser

I got this information from a developer, it should answer your question.

The preferred usage is to run
iwrmuser
and then run
iwadduser

iwrmuser will remove the user from roles files/EDB
and iwadduser will add the user to the roles files/EDB.

A user removed from OS and left in the EDB is not abnormal.

lissa

13adam13

Just to make sure you realize, if you deleted the user from the OS, and then recreate the user, that user will have a different SID.

This means that TeamSite will not recognize this "new" user as having ownership of any of the previous files.

In the future, instead of removing an account fromt he OS, you should just disable it. This prevents you from having to worry about the SID, and will also allow TeamSite to still show a file owned by John-Doe instead of 52-2345-1234-12-3354-3(The possible SID of the deleted user).

Essentially< you cannot recreate the same user. However, if you are using TS5.5 or later, there is always the iwidmap to reassociate.
https://support.interwoven.com/kb/kb_show_article2.asp?ArticleID=44697