Hi, chroot is an interesting argument.... what about: in a chroot environment with a local passwd and shadow and group files, I cannot use users. Eg, in the chrooted bash, 'ls -l' returns 0 0 for root.root files, 8.8 for mail.mail files... so my chrooted copy of sendmail freezes. It seems that the local passwd isn't there... Perhaps there's something wrong whith Pam or similar things... I don't know a lot about them. Thanks, Marco iw3hja@dei.unipd.it www.taffi.it