Dear Sirs, I wish the kernel to prompt the administrator for a secret key while booting-up. This secret needs to be changed everytime the machine boots-up and will be used in the "net" module of the kernel. Can somebody guide me as to how should I go about doing it .. where to make changes and allocate memory for this secret key ? Thanks and regards, Priyank Porwal. PS : Please reply to me directly. I am not a list member. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PRIYANK PORWAL Senior Undergraduate, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Address : Room No. G-318/I, IIT Kanpur - 208016, INDIA. Phone : +91-512-597311 <current> , +91-522-359175 <permanent> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org