I've built a 'ManholeFactory' to use with my application (see below). When I try to connect to it via the 'manhole' client (under Linux) it asks for Host, port, Name, Password, all of which I provide. But it gets an error returned. I was wondering if I need to do anything special (besides what my manhole support does)? Peace, Chaz (Please forgive the poor formatting...it is the email client doing it). def ManholeFactory(namespace,**passwords) : realm = manhole_ssh.TerminalRealm() def getManhole(_): return manhole.Manhole(namespace) realm.chainedProtocolFactory.protocolFactory = getManhole p = portal.Portal(realm) p.registerChecker( checkers.InMemoryUsernamePasswordDatabaseDontUse(**passwords)) f = manhole_ssh.ConchFactory(p) return f class ManholeService(internet.TCPServer): def __init__(self,port,namespace,**passwords): internet.TCPServer.__init__(self,port, ManholeFactory(namespace,**passwords)) ManholeSrv = ManholeService(ivars.ManholePort, globals(),admin='whirlwind') ManholeSrv.setServiceParent(srv)