OK, I think I've got it figured out. If you set it up to use ssh, then if you have the public key on the server's authorized_keys file, then you can execute any command on the server. So the downside to using this technique for fractint developers is that you are trusting those developers to arbitrary shell commands on the server. I could enquire at XMission about an account just for fractint developers and there would be minimal side effects to allowing open ssh access to developers. XMission provides free 50 MB accounts to non-profit organizations. It would be better if we just setup sourceforge with fractint using some license that's more permissive than the GPL. Then we could do the same thing on sourceforge and wouldn't have to setup anything weird. Can't we be covered under the X Window System license? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>