Hi, On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 10:12 -0500, Christopher Hotchkiss wrote: > But now that I am redoing it let me ask this question. On step 2, part > 5, section g, line 6. Could you please clarify what you mean by > "group-name"? Hmm, its not really at all specific to Stateless Linux, so that might be a bit confusing. Its just there to help people get everything set up. The "group" in this case is just your normal user group, but in LDAP to be accessed using NSS. So, I think there might be a step missing: Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf, change passwd, shadow, group lines to be 'files ldap' But maybe I'm not seeing something. So, the last line in this part: ldapadd -x -W -D"cn=Manager,dc=stateless-test, dc=example, dc=com" <<EOF dn: cn=demo-group,ou=groups,dc=stateless-test, dc=example, dc=com objectClass: posixGroup cn: demo-group gidNumber: 1000 memberUid: group-name Should really be "memberUid: demo-group" - i.e. the group your demo user is a member of. Cheers, Mark.