Could someone give me the quick walk through on what it takes to create an account in VMS 7.2? I used to know this, but it's been a long time. The steps I remember are: 1. use authorize to add an identifier for the person. 2. use authorize to add the person. 3. create their directory. 4. use authorize to set their password and clear the disuser flag. 5. log in on squeeky clean new account. The problem is, I have an account on my vaxstation, but either I never managed to get it to work or I forgot thet password. The security alerts that come up in audit server tell me my password is bad, even when I'm typing in what I just used authorize mod jim/password=<whatever> to set. Thanks. And I have to say ELM looks somehow more *right* on a vt220 amber monitor than it does in a window. :) -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------