You could use cgiwrap to execute the cgi as the user owning the webspace instead of the webserver. First thing that comes to mind anyway. http://freshmeat.net/projects/cgiwrap/ Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 http://www.ringworld.org | PCS: 612.306.6055 They must not get baseball sized hail in Redmond. If they did they would have realized HailStorm is a bad name for their new services.