hey all - i appologize b/c this probably isn't the best place to post this message, but it does have a little to do w/ security. :) i need to write an application to create users on a system. basically their info is stored in a mysql database and their username, etc is generated based on a letter and their ip address (i work for a web hosting company and we assign usernames based on the last two octets of the ip they get) i was planning on running this as a daemon that accepted the domain name to be created. so - basically i was looking for info on what would be the securest way to do this and where i could find information about using functions, etc that have laready been provided to do this. thanks -Jae ** "I'm very drunk and I intend on getting drunker before it's over." -Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind