Zane <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote: The phrase 'not terribly secure' is being nice. Given a password of 1234 whose bits are 01000001 01000010 01000011 01000100 The password was stored in a config file with the characters of the password reversed 4321 and IIRC, the bits were reversed also. 00100010 11000010 01000010 10000010 I worked in a TV Studio years ago and the production manager was a butthead. When he wasn't around I would go to the computer in the main office and pop in a floppy and reboot. The autoexec ran a program I wrote which decoded the passwords and wrote them to a file on the floppy and then rebooted the machine bringing it right back into Direct Access. It was months before he caught on. Mike