Technical Tip: How to delete an admin user if the user is linked with a folder

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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 The entry is used by other 1 entries Command fail. Return code -23 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