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Issue Deleted FTP users still showing on /etc/passwd

Ryan

New Pleskian
Server operating system version
CentOS Linux 7.9.2009 (Core)
Plesk version and microupdate number
18.0.56 Update #4
I went through and deleted some unused/inactive FTP accounts on some of my subscriptions using Plesk, from where they were created.

While they are now gone from Plesk, they are still showing up in /etc/passwd.

Thoughts?
 
I don't mean the subscription's main user, I mean under the "Additional FTP Account" section.
Example, where company1 is the subscription's main system/FTP account for company1.com, ftptuser1. So in /etc/passwd/ , there are three entries:

company1:x:10028:1003::/var/www/vhosts/company1.com:/bin/false
ftpuser1:x:10029:1003::/var/www/vhosts/company1.com:/bin/false
ftpuser2:x:10020:1003::/var/www/vhosts/company1.com:/bin/false

The weird part is that some of the "additional ftp users" I deleted are now gone from the /etc/passwd file but there are some there that I deleted the same way from Plesk but that remain in /etc/passwd. (Not the the main system user). These aren't Panel users, ftp-only.

So in this example I deleted ftpuser1 and ftpuser2 from inside the Plesk Control Panel, and ftpuser1 is now gone from /etc/passwd but ftpuser2 is not.
 
Do you have this ftpuser2 in the psa database?
Code:
SELECT * FROM `sys_users`;

Tools and Setting > Database Servers > Select the Plesk Database Server > Webadmin (the small icon) > psa database > sys_users table
 
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