> Also, I don't imagine this will be the last service I setup on my machine > that will require its own passwd file. What approaches do you recommend for > designing user administration scripts that update all the different passwd > files. Basically, what are the do's and don'ts? The reason they have a separate file is because it's bad policy (security-wise) to have the samba passwd = the system passwd. I believe that you can just not use the samba passwd if you want samba to use the system passwd file. At least this was possible in older versions I used. Andy > Thanks, > David >