Since I've been struggling with this for a while I thought I might share the following tidbit: In order to ssh directly into passion without going through login first, I placed the following in my ~/.ssh/config: host passion user biurrun ProxyCommand ssh login nc %h %p #ProxyCommand ssh login -W %h:%p host login hostname login.nets.rwth-aachen.de user biurrun Now I can just type 'ssh passion' instead of doing a two-step ssh login. The hack with netcat is necessary due to the last millenium version of ssh that comes with CentOS 5.6, which is installed on login. More modern versions could use the commented-out '-W' variant. If somebody thinks this is old and stupid and has a better solution, I'm all ears... Diego -- This is the main pisa mailing list. Please also subscribe to the pisa-dev list at: //www.freelists.org/list/pisa-src