Hi, On Tue, Oct 17, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > Since shipping our most recent release using pam_unix instead of pam_pwdb, > we've gotten reports from users having problems authenticating using NIS > servers running on HP/UX. It looks like the the pw_passwd or sp_pwdp > fields have additional data in them, which is marked by appending a comma > to the real data (similar to the way the gecos information is formatted). Use my pam_unix2 Module. It knows about the HP/UX shadow implementation and uses the extra data and doesn't ignore it. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.