James said.. > Anyway, what i did on my system is put a .rhosts file in every user > directory. chmod 000 .rhosts and chown root .rhosts. Not all user needs > .rhosts file. Those who wants to use them email me and i will chown back > to them. (any problem with that? :-) Wot? And you users don't just "rm .rhosts"?? Maybe they don't own their own directories?? Intrigued... George