On May 15, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: > I would like to be able to specify a database/user/key when a client > connects to the server. So I could give remote access without > worry, and > only opening a single port for all my durus databases. Can't ssh be used to provide this kind of functionality with a much higher level of security? If you are allowing connections on an external interface, it seems like the pickles should be protected from sniffers. Why is it that you only want to use one port?