Hi > > Yes. But we were discussing changing that line in /etc/passwd (and > making other changes) so that that would no longer be true. And some > scripts (as Mitch pointed out) *do* explicitly use the root:root name. since this has nothing to do with windows xp, you might want to start a new thread or rename this one so as to avoid the view that everybody here is dicussing about MS -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram