yes, having a root password is generaly bad, as it is what most attackers will try first. On a simmilar vein, would it be much of a perfomance hit to be running denyhosts on these machines? -ffm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20071219/d2ef6600/attachment.html>