Thanks to all for the replies. I had thought about somehow making a file with readonly permissions to the script but didnt know how to go about doing that..I'll look into the TK option as well. I wish ssh was an option..unfortunately we only use telnet...the server is pretty secure and only about 5 people will have access, none of them ever logged into a linux machine before so I'm not thinking any of them are going to be haxx0ring the box =)..just trying to take reasonable precautions.. thanks again