Cool thanks a lot, it's something similar that I have had in mind also, we have about 3000 users on my network with somewhat of a similar stuff right now, the only problem that I can see is how to script adding users into a ldap database in a simple way. Regards Per Qvindesland On 2/8/09 10:16 PM, "Jake" <jakepaulus at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm afraid I don't have permission to distribute the script. The > relevant function is that it copies /etc/skel/.* to the user's home > directory and then does chown -R user:user