Hi Trantor, Sorry, forgot to mention that the web page is passwd protected and limited to only few users. I'm doing all this within intranet and our security team strongly suggests us using ssh/scp/sftp for any interaction between different servers. I'm now looking at he net::rexec stuff, the reason I would need to run as root is that other department has deamons running on the server which they own and I'm trying to offer them access to the box remotely and only allow to start/stop certain deamons. sudo would've been another solution but I would like to do it perl-way, not very good at it yet but will try my best and see how it will go. Thanks!