Thanks for all the info! I'll make a hourly backup to my friends machine (mine isn't connected all day), where no users will have accounts. I think I will run /usr from a ro filesystem, it sounds like a very secure method. = Claudio P. S. Leite | http://www.kreative.net/~leite (general) claudio@tux.org | http://www.tux.org/~claudio (coding)