On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Rick Goyette wrote: > That works nicely. One thing: This assumes that all passwords are > handled through the NIS server. What if a system, in addition to > allowing NIS users, also had a few local accounts. Is there a way > for pam to distinguish between the two, and not use nis to change the > password for a local account? Old passwd from redhat (maybe that's the one you use) had a nice option -N just for this purpose. Read passwd man page for details. Jan -- Jan Rękorajski | ALL SUSPECTS ARE GUILTY. PERIOD! baggins<at>mimuw.edu.pl | OTHERWISE THEY WOULDN'T BE SUSPECTS, WOULD THEY? BOFH, MANIAC | -- TROOPS by Kevin Rubio