> redhat 6's useradd doesn't accept -p <passwd> Howbout installing the shadow passwd suite (or is it already?) Once done, you should be able to use newusers (which accepts a file looking sorta like a passwd(5) file). -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: jim@laney.edu http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer: jwl@debian.org http://www.debian.org/~jwl/