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Like I said, lppasswd is usually a setuid executable -- meaning, it would always be running as the same user no matter who called it. Perhaps that's why it's misbehaving.

Two obvious fixes:

1)...

No problem.

I suggest the advanced bash scripting guide (http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/). You use ksh, not bash, but there's huge amount of overlap.

Especially useful are the Reference Cards,...

That's a useless use of cat (http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html). wc -w < filename

cat means what it says: That file doesn't exist yet. It doesn't exist until you run something which...

Hi linuxn00b,
Welcome to the forum.

You may want to use fuser or lsof