Hi, I was building a new mail server for a client. At the pop account creation, all worked fine. I used something like this in a simple sh script: -- #!/bin/sh vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 123456 vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12345 +- 50 lines. -- All the accounts where created sucessfully. Checked the MySQL logs, all fine. The strange thing happened when I tryied to fetch the new created accounts using pop3. They got me password failed. Then I ran vadduser for [EMAIL PROTECTED] again like this: # vpasswd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 123456 And it worked ! The account where sucessfully authenticaded. Then, I made another script like the one I used to vadduser to run vpasswd and change the password of each account: -- #!/bin/sh vpasswd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 123456 vpasswd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 123456 +- 50 lines. -- Again, checked MySQL logs, all passwords changed fine. And then I got the same error, even on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account!? Strange isn't it? When I ran vpasswd individually, it changes and auths OK. When I ran vpasswd from a script line by line, it changes but auth fails. Should this be a MySQL issue ? The only solution I had was change the password one-by-one, by hand! I've used this same scripts on the 4.9.10 version and it worked fine for me. I'm using 4.10.32, no patches. MySQL 3.23.39 Best Regards, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Eduardo Augusto Alvarenga - Analista de Suporte - #179653 Blumenau - Santa Catarina. Tel. (47) 9102-3303 http://www.netron.com.br/~eduardo -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-