Gentlemen, I have question regarding C2 secure environment (Well nearly C2 secure). In our environment we have plain NIS server on SUNOS. When you do a ypcat of passwd you get the following, rowclg:##rowclg:21976:20155:Guy Rowcliffe:/home/rowclg:/bin/csh carnem:##carnem:2616:20156:Michael Carney:/home/carnem:/bin/csh burnsj:##burnsj:2283:20122:James Burns:/home/burnsj:/bin/csh ^^^^^^^^ Note the password field, the actual crypted password is stored in another file call passwd.adjunct which is only readable by root. I would like NIS to vaildate users without the overhead of using another authenication method. By the way are there any plans to support NDS ? Regards Ripon Mandal ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com