Hi all! I've been trying to help someone with an implementation of SuSE Linux Professional 7.1 on a LAN that requires four primary groups: 1. Sales 2. Accounts 3. Office 4. Schedule These groups have on average some 10 users each, and each group requires global access to "all software" except four users who require specific data access (to a database and payroll application). To "speed" things up, we decided to try K User Manager on a Laptop not connected to the LAn first to see how it implements users and groups and how easy the additions would be compared to other alternatives. I personally was struck by the excellent graphical element, and thought that it would be fine for the task ahead. Anyway, we encountered a number of errors whilst attempting the test: 1. On loading the application the errors "Couldn't read from /etc/yppasswd" and "couldn't read from /etc/ypgroup" popped up. The application launched, but only after these errors. 2. On trying to save the new groups and users, and after spending much time loading in the parameters for each, the application closed without saving with the error "/etc/yppasswd.bak" and a red error (windows looking!) sign. I realise that I can add users normally from YAST or using the command line, and add them to /etc/group, but it would help if we could use the graphical element of KUserManager. Does anyone have any ideas or advice on how we could fix this, or am I missing something important? From what I understand, ypbind etc looks for a yp server (NIS?) on the LAN, and I wondered whether KUserMgr needs this before operating properly? We're stumped, and if you could help I know there would be two very happy users out there and perhaps a very appreciative school!! Thanks! Paul.