good suggestions, but i'm still having trouble: the logs reported errors adding users because of "no such object" so, i removed fedora directory and re-installed it, ran the setup script and then tried using LdapImport.pl to migrate the users. All of the users, including all of their information was added (linux uid, gid and md5 hashed password, etc.), but they are in the UserPreferences ou in NetscapeRoot (that's the default) and all of the groups got added to the TopologyManagement ou in NetscapeRoot. The Groups and People ou's in my ou are empty and I can't search Users and Groups to find any of them and I can't use LDAP to authenticate at a client. steve Del wrote: -- Steve Strong Math and Computer Science Washington High School 2205 Forest Dr. SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 http://crwash.org mailto:strong.s@crwash.org