Thank you all, I will investigate the different options... Stéphane Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am Di, den 17.01.2006 schrieb Stéphane Bruno um 15:59:Why not? I am ready to explore the different alternatives I could have. For example, is there a way to force passwd to setup a password for an account in an uninteractive way? Stéphaneman 8 chpasswd The tools in package libuser might be of interest. Alexander |