On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Mark Constable wrote: > Is it possible in some way to offer up a > home directory and uid/gid via PAM somehow ? No, this is not part of the PAM API. > In the case of ftp and authing off MySQL via > PAM, how can I get around the need to also > have a copy of the user in /etc/passwd just > for the home dir setting ? To do this, you will want to make use of an NSS module in addition to PAM. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer