I have a separate home partition which contains all personal data etc. When I get a new version of SuSE I usually upgrade by formating all other partitions and installing as new. When I setup my user account (versions ealier than 8.0) it assigns the existing home area to the user. If necessary I alter the uid to match (because I don't use the default). Everything works fine. In SuSE 8.0, with the new and wonderful yast2, it would not allow me to create the user because the home area already existed and was in use by another user, neither would it allow me to change the uid. Eventually, I created a second home area which I promptly deleted and manually edited the passwd and group files. Just wondered if anyone else had a similar experience, and to my beloved experts what would you do? Is there a better way to handle this? Thanks in advance. Eddie