I tested to change to a password starting with dash (used -tester0) using the Gosa web interface, and was unable to reproduce this problem. Gosa reported that the password change worked just fine, and there were no error in /var/log/apache2/errors.log. This I have no idea how to reproduce this and assume it is solved. I guess the patch I proposed is not needed. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen