Setting a password for 'me' is the easiest way. You can change it in the preferences panel, or using the terminal (commands are almost exactly 4.3BSD, although strangely there is no 'uname') I believe there was another way by setting something in NetInfo or similar, but the password is the easy way. BTW root ships unpassworded (great security there - almost impossible to get at locally unless you know what you're doing, but no prompt for a password - and it stayed that way until Rhapsody). On another tangent - when in school I skimmed a book on NeXTs written very early on. For a while, anyway (this book covered the '030 cube only) NeXTSTEP used a 'black hole' for a trashcan. When did this change to the recycle arrows? (and why a recycle in NeXT and Windows? you're concieveably 'recycling' the disk space, but very definitely trashing the file. OTOH, the 'shredder' in CDE is equally confusing - I have never heard that it ever supported secure deletion, which is what a shredder implies).