There are some hints in Sun's BluePrint "NIS to LDAP Transition: Exploring": http://www.sun.com/software/solutions/blueprints/0200/ldap.pdf --- Michael Neef, System-/Netzwerk-Administrator Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik D-44780 Bochum, Germany EMail: Michael.Neef at neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de