Dear Sally, I'm responsible for installing Oracle on an NIS client named ava2. Oracle requires a username so I picked "oracle". I'd like the oracle home directory to be /oracle. Please add the appropriate entry to the NIS passwd map. Also Oracle requires an entry in the NIS group map. Please create a group named "dbax" and put the following usernames in it: ricardo,dan,root Thank You, Brent Von Neinvoltenmier, Oracle DBA