>>>>> "James" == James Seng <jseng@darwin.technet.sg> writes: James> Anyway, what i did on my system is put a .rhosts file in James> every user directory. chmod 000 .rhosts and chown root James> .rhosts. Not all user needs .rhosts file. Those who wants James> to use them email me and i will chown back to them. (any James> problem with that? :-) The problem is, if users have write permission on their home directories, then they can delete the root-owned .rhosts files and create their own. -- Joe Konczal <jkonczal@nist.gov> National Institute of Standards and Technology Tech. A62 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (301) 975-3285