You have two kinds of configuration: MANUAL install, which is what Jenny has chosen, and AUTOMATIC install, which is the default. No password is required for the manual installation. For the automatic install, you have two choices: no password (the default), or the definition of an install password, which must be provided to effect the installation. If you choose manual install (which is not the default), you get a CARD LOADable file in your reader and it's up to you to install everything manually. If you want to have automatic update with password validation, well you must first choose automatic update, and then define a nonblank install password (in LOCAL SYSVARS with all the rest of the stuff). Eric