User already exists

[Matthew1]

I've been messing about a lot recently and I've had to rebuild my VPS template a lot in the past month. For some reason, Plesk is finding user data from a bunch of previous instances, so I've got to a point now where it's saying users exist when they can't be found in the panel interface.

I don't know how my VPS provider's infrastructure works but I'd presume that when I rebuild the server it's a total new instance and no data should carry over.

Is the the user data stored locally, and how would I go about clearing out the obsolete data?

 

[abdi]

Do you have the OLD users listed here:

/etc/shadow

&

/etc/passwd

Otherwise, re-installing the server is a sure and easier way to clean it up ...