Thanks Joe, I probably sound like the newbie that I am, but I assume you are talking about the source of the adduser command? Unfortunately my Redhat distro didn't come with src. Could you possibly mail it to me? Thanks again,- -Cam ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Flowers To: pam-list@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 8:53 AM Subject: Re: User creation on the fly / Default user Cameron: adduser.c seemed to work for me. I had to add the crypt() function to it though and recompile. Joe