Hey, After discussing the limit of MAX_ALLOW_USERS I've been trying to use AllowGroups instead. In the config file I have the AllowUsers lines before the AllowGroups lines (I have tried both ways) and it appears that the presence on the AllowGroups directives seems to blow away any Allow* directives I have set. I'm not sure how to check further for bugs so I figured I'd contact you guys. When I simply comment out the AllowGroups line, the AllowUsers directives work fine, when I uncomment it, no access is granted to the system, period. Bug? In servconf.c I added debug lines in each directives case to print the amount of users found and when I start sshd, it prints the correct numbers. [username at hostname /home/username/OpenSSH/openssh-3.5p1]$ ./sshd -d -d -d -p 8088 debug3: Found 5 AllowUsers debug3: Found 11 AllowUsers debug3: Found 12 AllowUsers debug3: Found 14 AllowUsers debug3: Found 16 AllowUsers debug3: Found 17 AllowUsers debug3: Found 29 AllowUsers debug3: Found 1 AllowGroups debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_3.5p1 debug1: private host key: #0 type 0 RSA1 debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /usr/local/openssh/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key. debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA debug1: private host key: #1 type 1 RSA debug3: Not a RSA1 key file /usr/local/openssh/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key. debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA debug1: private host key: #2 type 2 DSA debug1: Bind to port 8088 on 0.0.0.0. Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 8088. The diff, in case you want to see what I actually did: -3.5p1-chroot/servconf.c --- openssh-3.5p1/servconf.c Thu Sep 5 00:35:15 2002 +++ openssh-3.5p1-chroot/servconf.c Mon Feb 10 13:52:34 2003 @@ -775,6 +775,7 @@ options->allow_users[options->num_allow_users++] xstrdup(arg); } + debug3("Found %d AllowUsers", options->num_allow_users); break; case sDenyUsers: @@ -795,6 +796,7 @@ options->allow_groups[options->num_allow_groups++] xstrdup(arg); } + debug3("Found %d AllowGroups", options->num_allow_groups); break; case sDenyGroups: -- James Dennis Harvard Law School "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."