* Brian Gonzales > 3. If I'm in Gnome, I do the same and I get a 'bad password' dialog box. Two wild guesses: (a) Gnome is using sudo. In this case, it is your own password that should be typed, and you should need the proper entries in /etc/sudo.conf. (b) There is a character encoding mismatch. This is a pain in the ... for all non-English setups in many situations. -- Jon Haugsand, Jon-H.Haugsand@norges-bank.no http://www.norges-bank.no