Steve Langasek wrote: > No, this is not part of the PAM API. Thanks for the clarification. I can stop banging my head against the wall now. >> 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. I'm not getting anything useful from searches on "NSS"... would you mind passing on a URL or an extra keyword so I can narrow the search please ? --markc