Ummm. Looks as if I spoke too soon. (Too many brandies.) Having checked that "pwd" returned "/" for one test user in a test directory, I set up the passwd files for six others, logged off, re-booted -- and found myself back to square one. !!?!! And now I don't know exactly what it was I did to make it work. (all files have retained the same settings -- so it must have been an ephemeral system change caused by my constant reconfigurations; and it had something to do with changing the configuration of pam. Which now appears to be totally ineffective.) Back to the keyboard. -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
