>Apologies for the delay - I've been busy. Hopefully I won't have to wait >as long for your response :) Pre/post-operation (notification) plugins, a la the Netscape SLAPI, provide a general solution to adding application specific logic to slapd. IBM are apparently integrating their implementation of this into OpenLDAP. regards, -- Luke -- Luke Howard | lukehoward.com PADL Software | www.padl.com