Strongly suggest you upgrade that machine. If you're going to start changing configurations on that system, you may as well bite the bullet and upgrade. RH 8 is no longer supported, and you will only find yourself gradually more exposed in various ways that you can't easily adapt to. This would, in my view, include newly discovered security exploits against which you would have no recourse, because no one is shipping patches against any app on RH 8 any longer. John J. Boyer writes: > 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 -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +1 202.494.7040 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list