diff --git a/src/client/distren.c b/src/client/distren.c
--- a/src/client/distren.c
+++ b/src/client/distren.c
@@ -23,38 +23,63 @@
 #include "execio.h"
 #include <libxml/tree.h> /* Happy fun XML time */
 #include <libxml/xmlwriter.h>
-
+#include <confuse.h>
+#include<string.h> // for strcat
 
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 
 
-/* Mneh variable goodness */
-int isusername;
-char *host = "protofusion.org";
-char *username = "guest";
-char *nameemail;
-/* */
+
+
+// parseconf(); /* calls the confuse parser from options.c */
+// So I couldn't figure out how to get a function to return multiple variables, so
+//   I tossed the code from options.c right in here to save me the trouble. Fix if you wish, if possible... :D
+
+
 
 
-/* put some code here to parse for a username, set isusername=0 if no username in the xml file or if no xml file exists. if no file, drop a warning */
+/* Conf File Parser */
+    cfg_opt_t opts[] =
+    {
+        CFG_STR("username", "guest", CFGF_NONE),
+        CFG_STR("hostname", "protofusion.org", CFGF_NONE),
+        CFG_STR("name", "Guest", CFGF_NONE),
+        CFG_STR("email", "guest@protofusion.org", CFGF_NONE),
+        CFG_END()
+     };
+       cfg_t *cfg;
+       cfg = cfg_init(opts, CFGF_NONE);
+       if(cfg_parse(cfg, "distren.conf") == CFG_PARSE_ERROR)
+    	   return 1;
+  /* End Conf File Parser */
+
 
-if(isusername = 0){
+
+
+int x = 1; // hehe for testing
 
-char buf[10];
+// Please find a better way of doing this :( you can't strcat multiple strings.. meh
+char *username = cfg_getstr(cfg, "username");
+char *hostname = cfg_getstr(cfg, "hostname");
+strcat(username, "@");
+strcat(username, hostname);
+
+
+if( x == 1 ){
+// Create new account on the server if no username exists
+// THIS no longer SEGFAULTS!! YAY
+  char buf[10];
   struct execio *testrem;
   char *execargv[] =
     {
       "ssh",
-      host,
+       username, //cfg_getstr(cfg, "username") . "@" . cfg_getstr(cfg, "hostname"),
+      "-i guest.rsa", //yeaaaah enay better ideas?
       "sh",
       "-c",
-      "\"useradd -M -c",
-      nameemail,
-      "-d /home/distren --gid 537",
-      username,
-      "\"",
+      "\"echo hello from ${HOSTNAME}\"", // "\"useradd -M -c" strcat( cfg_getstr(cfg, "name") cfg_getstr(cfg, "email")) "-d /home/distren --gid 537" cfg_getstr(cfg, "username") "\"",
       (char *)NULL
     };
 
@@ -77,10 +102,13 @@ char buf[10];
 
 else
 {
-/* put code here to ssh to zserver2 w/ execio as the user from the xml file */
+	printf("Well now, you must have registered!\n");
+/* put code here to ssh to zserver2 w/ execio as the user from the conf file */
+return 0;
 }
 
 
+cfg_free(cfg);
 };
 
 
diff --git a/src/client/distren.conf b/src/client/distren.conf
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client/distren.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+hostname = "zserver2"
diff --git a/src/common/options.c b/src/common/options.c
--- a/src/common/options.c
+++ b/src/common/options.c
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ int execlisten()
   return 0;
 }
 
-int genericfunc()
+int parseconf()
 {
 
-  /* Conf File Parser */
+/* Conf File Parser */
     cfg_opt_t opts[] =
     {
-        CFG_STR("test", "mneh", CFGF_NONE),
+        CFG_STR("username", "guest", CFGF_NONE),
         CFG_END()
      };
        cfg_t *cfg;
@@ -45,18 +45,8 @@ int genericfunc()
            return 1;
 /* End Conf File Parser */
 
-
+// Testing code:
+  printf("Client Username: %s\n", cfg_getstr(cfg, "username"));
   cfg_free(cfg);
-
-       cfg = cfg_init(opts, CFGF_NONE);
-       if(cfg_parse(cfg, "distrend.conf") == CFG_PARSE_ERROR)
-           return 1;
-/* End Conf File Parser */
-
-       printf("Conf File Test: %s\n", cfg_getstr(cfg, "test"));
-
-
-  cfg_free(cfg);
-
   return 0;
 }