Technical Tip: How to delete an admin user if the user is linked with a folder
| Description | The article describes how to delete an admin user via CLI if the user is being used in another entry. |
| Scope | FortiPAM. |
| Solution | Admin user, test_1 in this example, can be deleted from FortiPAM Gui by selecting the admin user, and it shows the following notification:
After selecting OK, the admin account will be deleted accordingly. However, if the same account needs to be deleted from CLI, it shows the following error:
mercury-kvm64 (admin) # delete test_1
To resolve the error, the linked folder has to be deleted in the first place. Here is the command to remove the folder:
mercury-kvm64 (folder) # config secret folder mercury-kvm64 (folder) # delete <folder ID> mercury-kvm64 (folder) # end
After deleting the linked folder, test_1 can be deleted then from CLI:
mercury-kvm64 # config system admin mercury-kvm64 (admin) # delete test_1 mercury-kvm64 (admin) # end |
