I know this is sort of a stupid question of a newbie pam programmer, if anyone can help me out i'll greatly appreciate it. i am trying to write a simple pam module which pretends to provide its propietary user database. Even if i return PAM_SUCCESS from my pam_sm_authenticate function, the client application receives a 13d (PAM_ USER_UNKNOWN). Is the pam module supposed to set the user's UID somewhere? What's the security level of a PAM_SUCCESS accepted user account, otherwise?? could there be a bug on my distro? (rh 7.1.95 FairFax) thanks in advance albert __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com