I was told that chrooting the user wasn't a workable option, although noone explained the reason why. The 'while true ...' bit was part of our solution, tho. On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:56:48AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > You could put the user in a chroot gaol. Or set their shell to > 'while /bin/true ; do sleep 100 ; done' > > Tom