> Hello again,
> 
> Thanks for the quick responses to my first question. 
> I was able to resolve the problem with your help.  The
> second question I have is related to SSH.  After
> installing SSH, the top command shows 2 users running
> when I am in xwindows.  It shows the root and the
> non-root user I am logged in under.  Does SSH utilize
> some services from the root even if you not logged on
> as root??  
> Thanks,

  The daemon owned by root is the parent daemon listening to new requests.
It is owned by root so it can bind to a priveledged port (in this case 22)
as well as a number of other things ssh must do as root (password
authentication for example).

Geoff

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