Error: Object already exists when creating an administrator account on Panorama

• The username is also seen in the saved-log query by admin in Panorama logs under GUI: Monitor > Logs
• When using config audit, the changes are seen with the username displayed.

GUI: Panorama > Config Audit

• Panorama
• PAN-OS 9.0.5

1. Login to CLI.
2. Access to configure mode.

> configure
Entering configuration mode

3. Verify if admin is already in admin account. Here "Administrator-user" is given as an example.

# show mgt-config users
users {
  Administrator-user {
    phash $1$######################.;
    permissions {
      role-based {
        superreader yes;
 }
}
#

4. Remove user/admin account.

# delete mgt-config users Administrator-user

5. Commit changes

6. # commit
   # exit
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