is FreeBSD arpnetworks provide jail based or Hypervisor virtualization ? kvm, i. e. you get a full virtual machine gamarco: LOL, it sure helped :) up_the_irons: what wm do you use? looked kind of like my old scrotwm desktop e To set a new root password for my new FreeBSD VPS do I invoke "sysinstall" and go to configure and page through the options till I hit "set the root password"? as documented 2.10.13 in the bsd handbook on postinstall? you could, sure. or you could just use the 'passwd' command. ifthen: at the root prompt simply type 'passwd' so passwd will let me set root as well as user ? yessir I'll try that thanks guys just passwd as root and to set a users 'passwd username' after set root nestea? either or start with root :) thanks nestea, don't wanna be locked out thanks again for instant feedback bbl np ifthen gamarco: xmonad gotcha up_the_irons: xmonad.org will soon be moving to ARP, when I have the time :)