How about this!!! What about changing file permissions on all browser, mail, IRC, and FTP applications??? Definitely remove all of these types of applications from their /home/'sillyteenager' directories first, then secure the main applications by ensuring correct file permissions are set. Take a look at KDE Control Panel > Yast2 Modules > Security & Users > Security Settings as an option. The paranoid setting lets you (root) control user access to all X applications. Or do it manually with all applications that could access information from the internet. Also, make sure you have access to their desktops, by knowing their passwords or setting them up with password-less logins. This way you can see if they are using pictures of nude women as their desktop #5 backgrounds, or have the complete text of 'The Anarchists Cookbook' in their Documents directory ;-) (Don't laugh too loud) Or, just take a look at their /home directories from time to time, to see if their trying to circumvent anything. Also, you may want to change your root password on a regular basis. Just some random wanderings from the scrambled mind of the father of a teenage boy. Good Luck! Bernd -- "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de St. Exupery