Hi, Under /etc/pam.d/passwd, I have uncommetted the line: password required pam_make.so /var/yp in the hope that when a user invokes passwd to change his password, this will invoke make -C /var/yp to update the NIS database as well. But this does not happen, as I can see the entries in /etc/shadow is updated, but not ypmatch user shadow.byname. The above is on a Suse 9.0 box. I then tried the similar thing under a Suse 10.0 box. Here I modified the file common-password, again the shadow password is not updated. One thing however I noted is that if I specify the pathname /lib/security/pam_make.so, as suggested in /usr/share/doc/packages/pam/modules/README.pam_make-0.1, now the passwd command fail with passwd: Module is unknown error. Any idea? Peter