diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4c607cb..871ceec 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -165,3 +165,6 @@ cython_debug/
 ssh_host_key
 *.key 
 *.pub
+
+# config files
+*.ini 
diff --git a/accounts.json b/accounts.json
deleted file mode 100644
index f60de16..0000000
--- a/accounts.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "guest":"",
-    "user1":"secretpw"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ssh_server.py b/ssh_server.py
index 637e041..9611cf4 100644
--- a/ssh_server.py
+++ b/ssh_server.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ from langchain_core.runnables import RunnablePassthrough
 
 from operator import itemgetter
 
+from configparser import ConfigParser
+
 async def handle_client(process: asyncssh.SSHServerProcess) -> None:
 # This is the main loop for handling SSH client connections. 
 # Any user interaction should be done here.
@@ -81,8 +83,7 @@ class MySSHServer(asyncssh.SSHServer):
 
     def connection_lost(self, exc: Optional[Exception]) -> None:
         if exc:
-            print('SSH connection error: ' + str(exc), file=sys.stderr)
-            logger.error('SSH connection error: ' + str(exc), file=sys.stderr)
+            logger.error('SSH connection error: ' + str(exc))
 
         else:
             logger.info("SSH connection closed.")
@@ -100,13 +101,13 @@ class MySSHServer(asyncssh.SSHServer):
 
 async def start_server() -> None:
     await asyncssh.listen(
-        port=8022,
+        port=config['ssh'].getint("port", 8022),
         reuse_address=True,
         reuse_port=True,
         server_factory=MySSHServer,
-        server_host_keys=['ssh_host_key'],
+        server_host_keys=config['ssh'].get("host_priv_key", "ssh_host_key"),
         process_factory=handle_client,
-        server_version="SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.3"
+        server_version=config['ssh'].get("server_version_string", "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.3")
     )
 
 class ContextFilter(logging.Filter):
@@ -127,29 +128,39 @@ class ContextFilter(logging.Filter):
 
         return True
 
-def read_accounts() -> dict:
-    accounts = dict()
-
-    with open('accounts.json', 'r') as f:
-        accounts = json.loads(f.read())
-
-    return accounts
-
 def llm_get_session_history(session_id: str) -> BaseChatMessageHistory:
     if session_id not in llm_sessions:
         llm_sessions[session_id] = InMemoryChatMessageHistory()
     return llm_sessions[session_id]
 
+def get_user_accounts() -> dict:
+    if (not 'user_accounts' in config) or (len(config.items('user_accounts')) == 0):
+        raise ValueError("No user accounts found in configuration file.")
+    
+    accounts = dict()
+
+    for k, v in config.items('user_accounts'):
+        accounts[k] = v
+
+    return accounts
+
 #### MAIN ####
 
 # Always use UTC for logging
 logging.Formatter.formatTime = (lambda self, record, datefmt=None: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(record.created, datetime.timezone.utc).astimezone().isoformat(sep="T",timespec="milliseconds"))
 
+# Read our configuration file
+config = ConfigParser()
+config.read("config.ini")
+
+# Read the user accounts from the configuration file
+accounts = get_user_accounts()
+
 # Set up the honeypot logger
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)  
 logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)  
 
-log_file_handler = logging.FileHandler("ssh_log.log")
+log_file_handler = logging.FileHandler(config['honeypot'].get("log_file", "ssh_log.log"))
 logger.addHandler(log_file_handler)
 
 log_file_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s %(levelname)s:%(task_name)s %(message)s", datefmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S. %Z"))
@@ -159,15 +170,16 @@ logger.addFilter(f)
 
 # Now get access to the LLM
 
-with open("prompt.txt", "r") as f:
+prompt_file = config['llm'].get("system_prompt_file", "prompt.txt")
+with open(prompt_file, "r") as f:
     llm_system_prompt = f.read()
 
-llm_model = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o")
+llm_model = ChatOpenAI(model=config['llm'].get("model", "NONE"))
 
 llm_sessions = dict()
 
 llm_trimmer = trim_messages(
-    max_tokens=64000,
+    max_tokens=config['llm'].getint("trimmer_max_tokens", 64000),
     strategy="last",
     token_counter=llm_model,
     include_system=True,
@@ -197,9 +209,6 @@ with_message_history = RunnableWithMessageHistory(
     input_messages_key="messages"
 )
 
-# Read the valid accounts
-accounts = read_accounts()
-
 # Kick off the server!
 loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
 asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)