> > any recompiling or upgrading will be useless - you just can't send > > keystrokes to a program that didn't started yet! > > No, they can be buffered on the terminal. Try typing at 'sleep 5; cat > </dev/tty' if you don't believe me. hm - right, but login plays a lot with the terminal (it has to disable echo for instance), so maybe it flushes the buffer before to read the password - must read the source! pietro.