diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/exception/Security.cpp b/tapeserver/castor/exception/Security.cpp
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index ce9e997e7abfc0c95df6c38c3e1e0e05b9650083..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tapeserver/castor/exception/Security.cpp
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@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-/******************************************************************************
- *
- * This file is part of the Castor project.
- * See http://castor.web.cern.ch/castor
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2003  CERN
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
- * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- *
- *
- *****************************************************************************/
-
-// Include Files
-#include <errno.h>
-#include "serrno.h"
-#include "castor/exception/Security.hpp"
-
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Constructor
-// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-castor::exception::Security::Security(int e) :
-  castor::exception::Exception(e) {}
diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/exception/Security.hpp b/tapeserver/castor/exception/Security.hpp
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-/******************************************************************************
- *
- * This file is part of the Castor project.
- * See http://castor.web.cern.ch/castor
- *
- * Copyright (C) 2003  CERN
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
- * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- *
- *
- * 
- *
- * @author Castor Dev team, castor-dev@cern.ch
- *****************************************************************************/
-
-#pragma once
-
-// Include Files
-#include "castor/exception/Exception.hpp"
-
-namespace castor {
-
-  namespace exception {
-
-    /**
-     * Invalid argument exception
-     */
-    class Security : public castor::exception::Exception {
-      
-    public:
-      
-      /**
-       * default constructor
-       */
-      Security(int se);
-
-    };
-      
-  } // end of namespace exception
-
-} // end of namespace castor
-