Thanks to all who helped with the ssh problem. There were two gotchas. Iptables was blocking all connections, and password authentication was turned off. Now I want to use the target machine to receive mail and for backup. When I boot the target machine, iptables is on and I have to log in as root to turn it off. How can I set iptables to be off at boot time? Or, better, to accept ssh and scp only from the source machine? Two user accounts receive mail continuously. I would like to have them automatically logged on at boot time. Is this possible? How? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list