Talking to myself again. Sorry about that. Anyway, for future reference, I would like to mention that recompiling libssl on a Sparc with the -mv8 flag to gcc really speeds up the login process. On the debian-sparc list, someone referred me to a message in the archive. See for more detail: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200203/msg00189.html Bob