# Cannot delete user

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-user/42031
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 4, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-user/42031 "2016-04-04T23:55:59Z")
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### Author: ![n-b-sonar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/n-b-sonar/32/119822_2.png) [@n-b-sonar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/n-b-sonar)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-user/42031/24 "2018-02-16T15:43:56Z")

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New Discourse user here, playing with hosted instance since this morning, and now fiddling with authentication/authorization.

Hitting the exact same issue: a colleague of mine signed-up locally (note: I’ve also enabled a few oauth2 providers), then logged-out, then as admin I went to delete him (_delete only_) → no can do 😕 (_There was an error deleting that user. Make sure all posts are deleted before trying to delete the user._)

Maybe relevant:

- he has the discobot greetings PM in his inbox, deleting it did not make any difference
- I got him to create a topic and then log back out, still can’t delete him
- his email domain matches an auto-join primary group I defined (can’t remove him from the group either in fact, which I’m not sure is a feature or an anomaly given that his domain does match)

Let me know if any further info could help, I’ve tried to share as much relevant info from what I learned in just a day (started trial this morning).

Thanks,  
Nicolas

Note: noticed other traces of such behaviour in this much more recent post

> [@Cannot delete user who is in a group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-delete-user-who-is-in-a-group/78799):
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> Hey., @jomaxro, working with a hosted customer today we tried to delete a user. There was a message that the user had posts and couldn’t be deleted, but there were no posts, but the user was in a group. When we deleted the user from group it was possible to delete the user.

But that issue is closed, hence why I reached out here

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