Speaking of shared object libraries and dynamic linking, is it possible to turned a dynamically linked program into a static one with ld, ld.so, whatever? If possible, Sun could distributed /usr/bin/login as a dynamically linked program and those who wish could make it static. Consider the sysadmin who needs a set of known tools that they can carry around on a floppy, tools like ps, netstat, ifconfig, etc. Those tools would be imune to various types of corruption of a system, changes to shared object libraries for example. Sure, one could fetch GNU tools and build them statically but the vendor's tools may be preferrable. Thanks for your thoughts. -- Larry Rogers Member, Technical Staff Trustworthy Systems Software Engineering Institute Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 lrr@cert.org lrr@sei.cmu.edu