This thread is interesting. I suspect there are a lot of other servers around it is relevant to. In carms LEA we buy in a web filtering service provided by a US company called N2H2. It is very similar to that described for the RM proxy - squid running under debian linux. I have no direct access to the system (unless I was to do as some suggested and change the root password ;) ). It is managed remotely by the company - including the really important bit which is the daily update of the blacklist. This service is the bit which we are really paying for. My question is: as we haven't bought the server and software from them, just a filtering service which happens to use it, how does the GPL apply to this situation? Apart from a web interface for managing the system and the filtering categories etc., the database of categorised sites is the only special thing on the system and is the main justification for withholding root access. I suppose that from an admin point of view it is much easier for them if no one has access to mess anything up. The system works well, in general, but it would be nice to have the option of tweaking it to suit ourselves. ____________________________________ Giles Nunn - Network Manager Carms Schools ICT Development Centre Tel: +44 1267 228277 Fax: 228275 ____________________________________