On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 08:56 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote: > If I force sleep my machine how can I set it up so that it prompts me > for a password when coming out of sleep later? > > one way you might try is open up your keychain app and under the window menu choose "show status in menu bar" this will put a small lock on your menu - click it - lock screen and OSX screen saver runs that is chosen in System prefs. and the screen locked. frank farwell