Yeah, I went through a similar drill about six months ago, but I quickly decided that instead of keeping my cool and going through the reset checklist, I went into an inverted highspeed flat spin panic and shut down the gate, but not before I activated the electronic equivalent of a pack of dobermans. When the security admins came in the next morning and found a stack of pissed-off users lined up wanting to know why the system was in a tight no access mode, things got interesting. It got worse when they found that I had turned loose a vulture security script that rips through the LAN from beginnig to end and eats anything and everything that remotely shows itself that it might be a non-root byte. The result was two days worth of system and file restoration. I have been given my Sun SPARCstation back, and I am allowed to logon again, but only during normal working hours and under strict adult supervision. rmck