When adding a new user, via the system-config-users GUI tool, received the error 'I can not find the numeric ID of the <username>'

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Issue

  • when adding a new user, getting error stating 'I can not find the numeric ID of the username'

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • system-config-users

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