I am a perl newbie so bear with me. I am trying to add users to a Solaris system using this module ie. Passwd::Solaris. It requires an encrypted password. I have read to use the Unix::PasswdFile module to encrypt the password. How does one do that? Actually, how do you merge the functions of the two modules. I can use them separately but is there a method to easily use the encpass method from Unix::PasswdFile when creating the array for Passwd::Solaris. I would also like to incorporate the maxuid method as well. Any help would be appreciated. Be gentle you are dealing with a newbie here. TIA Jim Krol