I don't think this is possible, but it should be! I want to use net ads commands for administrators on the command line without including the domain admin accounts password. Currently, I'm doing so via command lines such as: net ads password username@.AD.DOMAIN.EDU \ -U admin_user@AD.DOMAIN.EDU%admin_password users_new_password /net ads search sAMAccountName=username \ -U admin_user@AD.DOMAIN.EDU%admin_password I can't stand having to include admin passwords on the command line, and worse yet in the php scripts that call 'em. What I'd prefer is to be able to use a krb5 princ in /etc/krb5.keytab such as one would with kinit or kadmin with -p and -k arguments. Is this currently possible (but undocumented), or planned for future development? [ Rick Brown ][ (404) 894-6175 ] [ Office of Information Technology ][ rick@oit.gatech.edu ] [ Georgia Institute of Technology ][ 258 4th street. Atlanta, GA ]