Hmm, if you're concerned about logging in as root securely, wouldn't doing "su -" be a more viable option? At work we've completely disabled any and all remote logins as root. You either have to be at the console of the server to log in as root, or need to "su" to it. If you're doing this on Slackware, I do believe that they prevent remote logins as well. At least on my systems here at home prevent any remote logins as root. Shawn > anyways, i cannot log in as root to the machine in > question using ssh, i tried looking in the > /etc/securetty file and adding in/uncommenting > pty/0-pty/9 but still no luck... where else is root > login over ssh denied? > > -munir