On Friday 11 February 2005 14:20, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: > and I can set up hosts.allow to allow me to maintain the > machine remotely. Not really what you asked but.. if the question includes the word hosts.allow the answer just has to be no... :-) set something up with ssh (ssh-keygen and then copy over the public key) - but don't ever ever ever do a hosts.allow - you might as well just remove the password from the root account altogether... Peter.