Dave Gutteridge wrote: > Okay, I finally figured out what the problem was in making a new user. > Turns out that I can only log in with the newly created user account > after having rebooted. I would have thought it would have been good > enough to just log out and log back in, but apparently not. [snip] I don't understand why you should even need to log out (except that you need to use the same keyboard, something like that, but no *system* reason). Certainly on my system I've created a new user, and immediately had the new user log in. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!