\_ As long as you are not moving the passwords, yes. It seems the \_ passwords are dependent upon position (based on experience where \_ I tried to delete a user using vi on /etc/passwd, and every user \_ after that position could no longer log in; I restored that user and \_ all of the others could log in again). Urk...that's new behaviour...I remember the good old days when I saw someone stop-a a sun, bring it back up single user, type in the encrypted password string *from memory* and had a viable user when it came up all the way. On an unrelated humor note: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1097000/1097631.stm David