Hi, Now that I've given my lecture I feel better about myself :)
I still say that rsh and friends would be more appropriate as you don't need (by your assesment, and I'm admittedly paranoid) the overhead cryptography introduces. But if you want this to work... firstly did you hit enter at the password prompt (you still need to do this). Secondly you may need to add "nullok" in /etc/pam.d/ssh here: auth required pam_unix.so - becomes - auth required pam_unix.so nullok "nullok" is standard in /etc/pam.d/login but not /etc/pam.d/ssh, I don't know if this inherited in some way or not -Jon
