Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> skrev: Did I hear someone say "RSX"? :-) "RUN SHUTUP" usually does it, since by default SHUTUP is installed in the system. If it isn't, "RUN $SHUTUP" will do the same deal. As others mentioned, LB:[1,2]SHUTUP.CMD is invoked as a part of the shutup procedure, and shouldn't be invoked by hand. "RUN ACNT" if ACNT is installed. Otherwise "RUN $ACNT" will do it. The "SET PASSWORD" command is something that only exists in RSX-11M-PLUS, but if so, then it works just as fine from MCR as from DCL by default. ACNT is the general account management program. From a privileged terminal, you can change any account. In 11M, you can only change your own password with ACNT. In 11M-PLUS, ACNT is not usable by non-prived terminals. And there isn't any explicit admin account in RSX. The closest would be [1,54], if it exists. It does by default, which is why I mention it. But there are no problems with just deleting that account if you want to. Any account with a group number <= 10 is a privileged account. What this means is that when logged in, the terminal will have the PRIV bit set. Other users will have it cleared. Most things go on the terminal info bit when checking for privs. Run ACNT, and you can list all accounts, and see which exists with privs. Phew, big question. In short, you have two ways: 1) Do a full sysgen, which includes all the devices you want, and you'll have it. This will take a couple of hours, and literally hundreds of questions. A manual is almost neccesary. 2) Just build the device driver and load it. This requires that your system have been generated with loadable device drivers. You still need to figure out how to build the device driver. There are commands scripts that do these things, but they expect to be called as a part of SYSGEN, so doing it by hand will require some hands on fiddling. If you want a device driver to be abailable each time you boot, you need to add it to the system image you're booting. That is done by VMR. VMR is done as a part of SYSGEN as well, but if you build stuff yourself, you'll have to either add them in VMR as well, or load them at boot time in the startup script. I think I saw that SRI now have some RSX manuals online, and of course, we also have bitsavers. There is a whole manual just on the SYSGEN process. Read it. :-) VMS knowledge can be of some help, but not much of anything else. RSX is so much fun. Welcome to the asylum. :-) Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol