I cannot make hostbased authentication work for root. I have it working for ordinary users between OpenSSH-2.9p1 linux systems using the system config files. I'll send config files and logs of both if needed. Regards, John -- John Dunlap University of Washington Senior Electrical Engineer Applied Physics Laboratory dunlap at apl.washington.edu 1013 NE 40th Street 206-543-7207, 543-1300, FAX 543-6785 Seattle, WA 98105-6698