I know that the padl version of ldap.conf goes into /etc/ and the openldap conf software will use the file in it's directory but if I as a user - say root or another user wanted to have a file with automatic binddn, bindpw, host and base values would those go into $HOME/.ldaprc ? That doesn't seem to work for me - neither does $HOME/ldap.conf Isn't there a way to do this? Thanks Craig