StyX wrote: > Thanks for the tips everybody, but I haven't had too much luck yet. I'm > no C guru, so I have no reasonable explanation of why it doesn't read > /etc/secure/shadow... If someone could look into this, and tell me what > I have to change, I would _REALLY_ appreciate it. IIRC, one of the "standard" PAM modules uses libpwdb- not included with the core PAM source- and *that* library also references /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd directly. HTH, -kgd -- Money is overrated.