Hi all, Sometime back I posted something about ftp security and since then I have grown to appreciate the way Medusa tries to deal with the possibility of an acl folder appearing further down the trees. I solved my ftp worries (hopefully) by having my firewall allow ftp to that port ONLY from my LAN... Thanx for all who chipped in. Anyhow, now I am back to another post of mine. I posted something about having a site display random images from a folder , say images and thanks Tino and Dieter for the info in whrandom. I now have to take that further. The scenario is this. I want to be able to have a web based login screen as well as a sign up one. I have read the posts on using Login Manager or UserDB... but what I want is to have on the signup page a section that requests for things like hobbies and preferences and stores it in a database. Question is .. which of the two (Login manager or UserDB) will better suit my requiements and could someone give me a hint on how I would implement this? Also if I have images in folders say a_fold and b_fold and I have set a string property to the folders say like and in a_fold the value is "a" and in b_fold it is "b". Assuming that I have a database of someone's preferences and in it I have a string like which either has 'a' or 'b' or 'both' as it's value. How do I display random images from the folders according to what is in the database (assume its a mysql database)? Sorry for the lllooong set of probably unclear requests and thanks for any help anyone can give. Patrick.