The user's ID should be made the same as the Unix cluster if possible. To determine this, on any Unix cluster node do: ypcat passwd | grep E.G. % ypcat passwd | grep bdavis bdavis:ikWTOu5A65yH2:28101:589:Bill Davis:/u/bdavis:/bin/tcsh The third field is the user's ID (28101 for you). Jim At Ron Hatcher's request, I added two accounts (pcoper, pceic) on ppcc. Below is what I did to add the accounts. The "30000" and "30001" are arbitrary user IDs that I picked. Ron has the account passwords. Jim ----- ppcc.pppl.gov# cd /usr/etc/install ppcc.pppl.gov# add_user pcoper 30000 10 "Power Conversion Operator" /home/ppcc/pcoper /usr/local/bin/tcsh ppcc.pppl.gov# add_user pceic 30001 10 "Power Conversion Engineer in Charge" /home/ppcc/pceic /usr/local/bin/tcsh ppcc.pppl.gov# passwd pcoper Changing password for pcoper on ppcc.pppl.gov. New password: Retype new password: ppcc.pppl.gov# passwd pceic Changing password for pceic on ppcc.pppl.gov. New password: Retype new password: ppcc.pppl.gov# ppcc.pppl.gov# ppcc.pppl.gov# passwd -e pcoper Changing password for pcoper on ppcc.pppl.gov. ppcc.pppl.gov# passwd -e pceic Changing password for pceic on ppcc.pppl.gov. -- also add to relevant groups