Hello, I have a bunch of openSuSE desktops that are running in a network environment with central user management. User authentication for login is done up to now via a central NIS password database. Now I would like to change this and instead athenticate users against a central ldap server. This works when I configure it manually using yast on a already installed system but my problem is how can I automatically reconfigure existing desktops to use ldap instead of NIS. My idea was to use autoyast. So I configured one system, cloned it to get an autoyast config.xml file. Then on another system I wanted to reconfigure I started yast in the following manner: yast autoyast file filename config.xml This basically worked fine, but the problem is, that this was not completely noninteractively, I manually had to select the yast menu to apply the new autoyast configuration to the system. Is there a way to do this without user interaction? Does anyone have another idea how to automatically reconfigure a system from NIS to ldap athentication? Thanks you very much Rainer -- Rainer Krienke, Uni Koblenz, Rechenzentrum, A22, Universitaetsstrasse 1 56070 Koblenz, http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke, Tel: +49261287 1312 PGP: http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/mypgp.html,Fax: +49261287 1001312