Wow, this is definitely turning out to not be my month ... upgrade all the servers to OpenSSH due to SSH1.2.26 vulnerabilities ... .rhosts doesn't work anymore :( Get that fixed ... now rhosts of usera:hosta -> userb:hostb, where userb:hostb's rhosts has 'hosta usera' in it fails ... I don't know if these are problems specific to Solaris 7 or not, but can ppl check their machines to see whether this is just me, or a problem? I'm running pre25, and the pre26/pre27 releases don't look like they address this, but am going to download pre27 and recheck that ... Marc G. Fournier marc.fournier at acadiau.ca Senior Systems Administrator Acadia University "These are my opinions, which are not necessarily shared by my employer"