Hi, I am writing a script to update password files from the server to all the clients in the network. I will be copying the following files periodically to all the clients: /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group scp is one option to do the remote copying. But, root ssh is disabled in the clients and I cannot use scp. Is there any alternative way(other than scp) to do this. Do I have to enable root ssh inorder to do a remote copy of the above files. Please help. PS: I am not using NIS for password management. Thank you. Sashikanth Madduri. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html