I don't recall if this was announced already, sorry if this is redundant. The 2.1 Admin Guide at http://www.openldap.org/doc/ has been updated with more info on SASL and TLS, among other changes. If you haven't seen it yet please read thru it. -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support