I just killed a remote terminal window and noted this message triple in the log/messages: sshd(pam_unix)[30912]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) sshd[30912]: Warning! Could not relabel with system_u:object_r:sshd_devpts_t, not relabeling. sshd(pam_unix)[30912]: session closed for user root policy-sources-1.10.2-5 policy-1.10.2-5 If this is what I think it is sshd will slowly run out of available ptys. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.