I opened https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/9168 to track this use-case.

rob

Jim Kinney wrote:
> Ah. Yes. The primary group was earlier changed from the user private
> group to a different group shared with others. Will change gid to the
> original group and delete the original group before restore. Can't
> delete the shared group as it's in use.
> 
> If that fails, can still delete user and recreate with original uid/gid.
> 
> On May 30, 2022 9:56:51 PM EDT, Rob Crittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     Jim Kinney via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> 
>         Took a user who left and did the "delete --preserve" from the
>         gui. So
>         now they only list as a Preserved user.
>         Demo of them returning to org failed when I tried to restore
>         their account.
>         Error: ns-slapd -ERR - managed-entries-plugin -
>         mep_add_managed_entry
>         Unable to add managed entry "cn..." for origin entry "uid..."
>         (Already
>         exists).
> 
>         IPA v4.9.8
> 
> 
>     The group for the user already exists.
> 
>     Assuming the user is still in preserved state you can try removing the
>     group if it is otherwise not used and try to restore the user again.
> 
>     rob
> 
> 
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