I've heard of a program which prevents normal users from seeing directory contents on the system. My understanding is that they can still run programs such as pine, mutt, etc even though those might require seeing /etc/resolv.conf but if they try to cd into any directory above their home dir they can't. I've looked around but can't find such a utility. Anyone have ideas? -- We are writing this e-mail to inform you that the mail server is down. Please do not call the help desk for assistance. To see the progress of any outage refer to your e-mail notifications. Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net