Knoppix will automount a USB memory stick.. More precisely, it will create a desktop icon for it and each partition on your HDD. You can right-click and mount and change to read-write. Mandrake is the only other distro that does this, that I know of. On any distro you could probably turn on this feature. Floppies still require a click on the desktop icon or a mount. It doesn't mean all users can mount any drive or partition. They still need permission to do this. As has been said, if a person has physical access to a machine and either a boot floppy or LiveCD, the box can be 0wned in a matter of moments. Knoppix might take a bit longer due to its long boot time, unless I were to boot directly to the CLI. Brian Kelsay >>> Uncle Jim 07/31/04 02:06AM >>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:59:29PM -0500, Brian Kelsay wrote: > Whoa, Rex. There are some valid issues. Maybe I worded too strongly. I had only skimmed the articles when I first linked them. On a full read, I realized that there were issues they brought up that were already solved. For example, automounting and You have automounting? You mean you'll mount my floppy with no questions asked? If so then you can kiss security goodbye. If "desktop ready" means total root access to anybody with a floppy in their pocket then I'm glad Linux doesn't have any. I knew there was a good reason why I don't care about desktops. -- Jim