From: Ross S. W. Walker Sent: February 19, 2008 17:22 > > A short-cut to disable ldap name service: > > # authconfig --kickstart --disableldap > > And to disable ldap authentication: > > # authconfig --kickstart --disableldapauth > > Now I believe it only does something if /etc/sysconfig/authconfig > has these marked =YES, but if they are turned on there they will > automatically be turned on again during the next reboot, so check > there too. I will have a look at those but, for now, editing the nsswitch.conf file has taken care of the error messages. Thanks for your input. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com