On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Kevin Buettner wrote: > If you were you, I'd check the permissions on your rsh program. Make > sure that the setuid bit set. -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 6780 Feb 12 1999 /usr/bin/rsh Looks like Kevin has the answer for you. Now the other thing you could do is tweak the use of rsh to use ssh with an empty passwd key. That might drastically (for the scale involved) slow down the connection though. ciao, der.hans -- # +++++++++++=================================+++++++++++ # # der.hans@LuftHans.com www.excelco.com # # http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/ # # I'm not anti-social, I'm pro-individual. - der.hans # # ===========+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=========== #