On May 22, 2005, at 10:57, Dan Tepper wrote: > Sounds like he may have enabled the open firmware password, that will > disable some of those start-up sequence keys. Can he get into boot > manager by holding down the option key? An excellent suggestion, though he would still need the OF password to use the boot manager. But how could the user have enabled OF password in the first place? One can't do it by accident. The OFP application must be either downloaded from Apple, or copied manually from the Install disc. See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482> <0x0192>