diff --git a/src/client/distren.c b/src/client/distren.c
--- a/src/client/distren.c
+++ b/src/client/distren.c
@@ -30,56 +30,37 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 
 
+/* Mneh variable goodness */
+int isusername;
+char *host = "protofusion.org";
+char *username = "guest";
+char *nameemail;
+/* */
 
 
-	/* XML Testing, segfaults, so reverted to default. */
-	/*
-		xmlDocPtr doc;
-		xmlNodePtr cur;
-
-		doc = xmlParseFile(docname);
-
-		if (doc == NULL ) {
-			fprintf(stderr,"The document was not parsed correctly \n");
-			return;
-		}
-
-		cur = xmlDocGetRootElement(doc);
+/* put some code here to parse for a username, set username=0 if no username in the xml file or if no xml file exists. if no file, drop a warning */
 
-		if (cur == NULL) {
-			fprintf(stderr,"I cannot parse an empty document \n");
-			xmlFreeDoc(doc);
-			return;
-		}
+if(isusername = 0){
 
-		if (xmlStrcmp(cur->name, (const xmlChar *) "story")) {
-			fprintf(stderr,"The document you want me to parse is of the wrong type");
-			xmlFreeDoc(doc);
-			return;
-		}
-
-	*/
-
-
-
-  char buf[10];
+char buf[10];
   struct execio *testrem;
   char *execargv[] =
     {
       "ssh",
-      "protofusion.org",
+      host,
       "sh",
       "-c",
-      "\"echo hello from ${HOSTNAME}\"",
+      "\"useradd -M -c",
+      nameemail,
+      "-d /home/distren --gid 537",
+      username,
+      "\"",
       (char *)NULL
     };
 
   size_t readlen;
-
-
-  fprintf(stderr, "testing execio (It shouldn't work) :-)\n");
+  fprintf(stderr, "execio madness is occuring!");
   fprintf(stderr, "execio_open returns %d\n", execio_open(&testrem, "ssh", execargv));
-
   buf[9] = '\0';
   while(!execio_read(testrem, buf, 9, &readlen))
     {
@@ -91,23 +72,18 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
       buf[readlen] = '\0';
       fprintf(stderr, "read \"%s\"\n", buf);
     }
-
+  return 0;
+}
 
-  return 0;
-};
-
-/* this function should probably not exist. asprintf should be used instead of sprintf */
-size_t intstrlen(size_t theint)
+else
 {
-  size_t len = 0; /* if the number is single digit, this will be incremented */
-  do
-    {
-      theint /= 10;
-      len ++;
-    }
-  while(theint > 0);
-
-  return len;
+/* put code here to ssh to zserver2 w/ execio as the user from the xml file */
 }
 
 
+};
+
+
+
+
+