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We connected a computer to our FreeIPA system on the network, no problems there... However, we can't figure out how to remove a FreeIPA user account from the computer after they've logged in at least once.

Were running Fedora 27, and running userdel -r {username} results in:

userdel: cannot remove entry 'admin' from /etc/passwd

we don't want to delete the user from FreeIPA, just the system so it no longer shows on the login screen.

** We also tried using gnome's user screen to remove the user, and it prompts to confirm removal, we confirm, but then it doesn't remove the user.

Christopher
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FreeIPA does not store users locally, so using 'userdel' will not help.

From your description, it looks like you are interested in removing a user from GDM welcome screen rather than removing a user itself.

GDM uses GNOME AccountsService to store information about recently logged in users. AccountsService stores these details in files /var/lib/AccountsService/users/<username> and provides a dbus interface to access those details. UncacheUser method is what you need:

Running dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts org.freedesktop.Accounts.UncacheUser string:username would remove username from the list of cached users.

abbra
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