Managing users - deleting user says user does not exist?

[zpasplunk]

Anyone know what's going on here? It won't let me delete a local user. I can see them in the UI, but cannot manage them.

I tried to delete via the CLI and this is what I get:

$ sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunk remove user test1
Attempted to delete a user that does not exist: test1

$ sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunk list user | grep 'test1'
username:        test1

[zpasplunk]

We're not using LDAP, and these are local Splunk users.

[SinghK]

did you try restarting Splunkd service it will clear anything that has not updated in UI.

Else you can try https://<splunk server>:8000/debug/refresh.

may be user has been removed and is just visible on UI.

hope that helps.

[PaulPanther]

Have you already checked out some other splunk threads like How do you actually delete a user in the Splunk we... - Splunk Community

If the user test1 is not a local splunk user you can't delete the user in Splunk itself. Instead you have to delete the user in the source system ,e.g., LDAP Group.