I haven't a clue as to what openssh changed so that this no longer works:-( I went through and redid all my known_hosts things, but that didn't fix the problem. Any ideas? Thanks, -- David N. Welton ( Circa mea pectora davidw@prosa.it ) multa sunt suspiria http://www.efn.org/~davidw ( de tua pulchritudine debian.org + prosa.it ) que me ledunt misere