User Already Exists

Hi.

I’m trying to add a user in HA and it responds with “User Already Exists”. When I go to Settings/People, this just isn’t true.

Ideas?

What user name are you trying? Some are reserved.

@the.loquitur I had this problem too and was able to resolve it by doing the following:

  1. Carefully (backup!) delete the user from /config/.storage/auth_provider.homeassistant
  2. Reboot home assistant

I used docker:

docker exec -it [container_running_config] bash
vi ./config/.storage/auth_provider.homeassistant

But you can can use the samba addon as well.