Saw this in my list and did not see any response. securetty regulates who can remotely access the computer with root permission, if at all. here is mine: [root@serve1 /root]# cat /etc/securetty vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 vc/7 vc/8 vc/9 vc/10 vc/11 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 -- Gary Richardson garich@ptd.net Gary_Richardson@ibi.com