Hope it won't be spamming the group as I hope it would be useful. A script to create a database in dbm format (maybe I'm wrong in naming the format, but as far as I know it is called DBM). Tested with SuSE 8.1 --------- cut here ---------- #!/usr/bin/perl $dbmfile="vsftpd_login"; dbmopen(%MYHASH, $dbmfile, 0644) || die "Something is wrong today"; %MYHASH = (user01 => 'pass01'); dbmclose (%MYHASH); --------- cut here ---------- One gets two files: vsftpd_login.pag and vsftpd_login.dir. User 'user01' can use ftp with a password 'pass01'. Boris. -- -- -- -- -- Boris Kimel N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry 47 Leninsky Prospekt, Moscow, Russia Phone1: +7 095 135-89-41 Phone2: +7 095 938-35-10 Phone3: (inside IOC) 9-80 auto secretary, please use! Fax: +7 095 135-53-28 Email: kimel@1303.ru -- -- -- -- --