> I typed in nidump passwd but I did not see anything like > larry:xyreRxk:501:20::0:0:Larry Kollar:/Users/larry:/bin/tcsh, so no > number greater then 500 appeared. Did you put the dot at the end? There's a dot after the "passwd" string, separated by a space: nidump passwd . Just making sure, that's easy to miss & I forgot to point it out in my last message. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t "The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking." -- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc