Hmmm, I don't have a result, and I of course overwrote it not really expecting it to work. Six months ago I was playing with a CSV file in a perl script for another project that was encoded differently and that is what originally made me think of it. After looking through the saved output files I created in the troubleshooting process none of them have that attribute listed. I do have it in my nightly backup. I run a script at midnight that runs db2bak.pl, so the data is in there, but I don't want to restore a bad backup to a live, production system. This output has the same problem. dn: cn=Domain Guests,ou=GROUPS,dc=domain,dc=com gidNumber: 514 sambaSID: S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-514 sambaGroupType: 2 displayName: Domain Guests objectClass: posixGroup objectClass: sambaGroupMapping objectClass: top description: Netbios Domain Guests Users cn: Domain Guests I sent it to a file, opened it in a hex editor, but there is no difference that I can see. Are there any hex editors built into red hat 6.4 where I could open it without moving the data to a different server? Thanks again, Job -- 389-users mailing list 389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/389-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx