This snapin uses the real Unix properties of DS8 and above with the following names and syntaxes "UNIX:UID" "UNIX:Primary GroupName" "UNIX:Primary GroupID" "UNIX:GID" "UNIX:Login Shell" "UNIX:Comments" "UNIX:Home Directory" You can use it on non DS8 schémas in that case, you must stuff Unix properties in the L attribute ( Location string under thhe Identification page of NWAdmin32). Either way , the snapin will always try to get *missing* data from the L attribute Of course NDS8 (real or dummy) attributes have priority, that is if both exists NDS8 attribut will keep their values and the L attribute value will be erased when saving the NDS. User: U:nnn Unix UID G:nnn Unix GID S:/.../... Unix Shell H:/.../.... Unix Home Group: G:nnn Unix GID Currently the following attributes recognized by the PAM module are NOT modifiable by this snapin. You should modify them using the "built-in" string editor of NWADmin under the Identification Page ( Location attribute): User: O: Unix or NDS name of other group ( if that group is a NDS name and has a N:nnnn attribute, this value will be used for translation to Unix name, otherwise, a "proper Unix name" will be made from the NDS one ( remove context part, skip all spaces and illegal chars and prepend a Z if its starts by a digit ( this is required by useradd/usermod that misbehave with a group name starting with a digit) C: Unix comment, added to the Gecos field after the full name (-comma separator added) P: Primary group name. So far the snapin works with the numeric Primary Group ID for user's. It may change in the next release. Of course any other L (location) strings is left untouched by the snapin ( no error message)! Patrick Pollet Feb 05/02/2001