Hello Alex, Many thanks. Still I had no time to read about the details yet. And something tells me not to do the things I don't understand. After reading the PAM manual I should be able to read all the lines you sent me, and then, positively, thank you once more. Spasibo! Saturday, January 26, 2002, 5:58:49 PM, you wrote: AL> Dobry deni. AL> make a copy of your /etc/pam.d/pop first, just in case :) AL> then update your /etc/pam.d/pop, AL> Replace all lines in that file with: AL> #%PAM-1.0 AL> auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok md5 shadow AL> auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so AL> account sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so AL> account required /lib/security/pam_deny.so AL> password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow AL> password required /lib/security/pam_deny.so AL> session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so AL> session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so AL> P.S. AL> Make sure that AL> #%PAM-1.0 AL> is on the first line. AL> You can also modify the current settings if they seem too relaxed to you. AL> For example: you can take out nullok, but make sure everything works AL> before you start playing with different settings. AL> Nu schastlivo. :) -- Best regards, Boris mailto:kimel@1303.ru