Hi, Is there a way in which i can run pwdump on Linux (without dosemu or wine). I have a cron job on NT which runs rdist /S to generate the Sam backup in the Repair folder. I Then copy this file to Linux. I need to run pwdump now and get the userid's. I also need to extract the group information. I dont think pwdump extracts that. Is there some way i can get this info too. The reason for the groups is that on NT if someone needs mail/web access the admin on NT adds him to the Web/Mail Group. However the proxy/mail server is a linux box. If i could extract this info on Linux i can then add the user to my squid-proxy-allow file.It also allows me to auto-sync users on NT with Linux and block some users from mail/web. I dont want to run pwdump.exe on NT because 1. after decryption i need to copy it over sshd and i dont want to install sshd on NT. or any other package for that matter. The NT box is being managed by some REAL newbie's so other than a basic install of NT i dont want them to install any thing else. Is there some way i can extract the SAM file also directly onto linux without using the rdist mechanism. I can provide the Administrator password and do the transfer. Hope you can help bye