Hi, you should also disable the booting from cdrom or better remove the connctor-cable from the cdrom-drive. I be an experienced Admin and I know how to mount bsd-partitions w/o any logging.....use the SuSE-8.2 cdrom and start the rescue-system (i know not if it is possible with the original CD, may i have an modified frm me) this allow you to mount any partition an slice on the disks in the physical system. And at this point you have loosed all the security-solutions in the BSD themselfes. You should really connect an special crafted Hardware-Keylogger. I mean you can found an plan from this whit modified cabling to log the keystrokes to an another box (doubling and logging) or to logging into the serial-interface from another box.. btw Michael