Hi, You can blow away the netinfo database if you like... tho' it's somewhat crude. There's a simple way to hijack a NeXT computer from the console. bsd -s Once it boots do: sh /etc/rc & passwd root <type in your password> reboot (Physically turn system off and then on again at reboot) Note that of course you can't do this unless you're sitting at the console. Another tip: If you have troubles writing files in single user mode (using bsd -s), just remount the file system: moun t -o remount / ---- It's too bad you didn't notice the great applications that are around for NeXTStep a couple years earlier. You would have seen a great many more of them than are available today anywhere. Pre-press was awesome with postscript. More average applications like scanning applications and such are way ahead of their time. And then of course there's the Lighthouse Application Suite which you did find [that's great]! Rhapsody/Mac OS X Server is <deleted> <deleted> <deleted> <deleted> Oops... I think that's supposed to be a surprise. I just bought a 68030 cube last week. I'm currently running NeXTStep on Sun Sparc hardware. Since my 68040 machine is at work it'll be fun to set up some CRON jobs that run DSP [audio] programs at home. First I have to find an affordable monitor, keyboard, mouse and long connector cable for it. There are all sorts of fun things you can do with a NeXT computer. It is the ultimate hobbyist computer if you give it half a chance. I have a NeXT machine at http://next.ireadyco.com and software along with some software not on the archives if anyone is interested. Speaking of software not on the archives, there's a lot of neat hobbiest stuff that was released with the original OS and machine in 1988. Most of this has disappeared off the NeXT archives (peak, peanuts, etc). I found a lot of it on an old-days CD-ROM I bought at NeXTWorld. Thomas