I need to use rdist to sync some system files from one machine to another. I am unable to access the second machine as root. I have made a .rhosts in the second machines /root dir and tried to put ALL: local in /etc/hosts.allow. Both machines are rather verbatim Debian 2.2 I assume root is prevented from logging in some where, but I am unable to find just were. What am I missing here? Thanks a lot! -- Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>