It certainly is different - I dont recall chuser removing them before - BUT - IBM might consider not removing a user when the registry changes to be a bug.

Have you tried setting the default stanza to look at Kerberos. Then AIX will look there for users.

Before you do that though - make sure you set root, and maybe other "local" accounts to the local files. i.e.

$ chuser registry=files SYSTEM=compat root

Michael

I just made a default new and complete install with AIX6100-03.
I installed the Kerberos Packages just as I do with AIX53 and made the config.krb5 settings
So far so good, I make a normal system account and then i do a:
chuser registry=KRB5Afiles SYSTEM=KRB5Afiles auth_domain=<domain> <user>

but then the sh*tload comes.
As root:
passwd <user> : you don't have permission to do this 
rmuser -p <user>  : user does not exist.

but "cat /etc/passwd" shows my user I just made. Authenticating isn't possible with the new user, not locally not through Kerberos.
The syslog shows me:  UNKNOW_USER tries to authenticate (sshd)

Any suggestions are welcome please...