The "su fedora-ds" with the "/tmp/pwd.txt" gave the same errors: [root at dirs alias]# su fedora-ds -c "../shared/bin/certutil -N -d . -P slapd-dirs- -f /tmp/pwd.txt" ../shared/bin/certutil: line 50: cd: ../shared/bin/../lib: Not a directory ../shared/bin/certutil: line 57: cd: /opt/fedora-ds/alias: Not a directory [root at dirs alias]#ll /tmp/pwd.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 26 10:55 /tmp/pwd.txt [root at dirs alias]# ll total 364 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 247376 Nov 8 2006 libnssckbi.so -rw------- 1 fedora-ds fedora-ds 16384 Jun 26 10:56 secmod.db -rw------- 1 fedora-ds fedora-ds 65536 Jun 26 10:56 slapd-dirs-cert8.db -rw------- 1 fedora-ds fedora-ds 16384 Jun 26 10:56 slapd-dirs-key3.db Something very unusual going on....! SWA