Hi Peasant,

I do know what you mean with some of the open source stuff, what I will say is that as an admin you have to take reasonable care to ensure that what you are doing is safe. Also we tend to forget that the very nature of the Unix OS in all its flavours is such that it allows all users to use the system, provided they have the appropriate access rights.

Too often we tend to regard the server as our personal fiefdom, ignoring the basic premis that we are here to administer the system on behalf of all the users of the system. It may well be that in this particular case the admin will refuse to deploy a tool like this, based on several things. They may already have the required functionallity in place, in which case this is a user education matter. They may not allow the users in this location access to this type of data, in which case there is a need for communication. Or any number of other reasons, in essence this is down to the systems admin.

Regards

Dave