Hi Opus,

Thank you for your response. I do actually certain settings statically listed in the conf file.

USER1.BAN.ENTRY1= no access;#AllNiteCafe reason
USER1.BAN.ENTRY0= no access;#Casual reason

I've also statically set the usernames and encrypted passwords. The users are still able to access the banned channels. More than anything, I'm worried about would could come from those IRC connections such as Trojans, and various other nasty viruses etc... In fact the weird thing is, the daemon was rewriting that conf file while it was running. A user would connect and it would show that they connected to that channel after I specifically banned it. I tried to get smart and remove write access for the user the proxy was running as, and it actually changed the permissions of conf file when it restarted and the daemon was able to make new entries allowing users access thus overwriting any config changes I made.