Hi, > [root at Jack-Linux raddb]# rlm_dbm_cat -f users.db > "hhe4" Cleartext-Password := "hhe123" > Reply-Message = "Hello" > > "hhe123" Cleartext-Password := "hhe123" > Reply-Message = "Hello" i have a theory of the entries - remove the quotes from around your userid's in that database file. alan