Hello. Finally (yesterday) I've found a solution which made pam_userdb to be able to find, to open and use it's user database. Pam_userdb obviously needs a database in old dbm format using two database files with "dir" and "pag" extensions. The only way to create them that I found is to use a Perl script with dbmopen function. Why not recompile PAM to support new db formats? As seen from the pam_userdb source code, an attempt was made to support them, only the conditional defines there seem to be not working. 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 -- -- -- -- --