Yesterday, I came across an Apple knowledge base article (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4272) that appeared to me to state that under certain circumstances, passwords might be stored in clear text in some log files. So I started thinking about a command line that might be used to return a list of log files, compressed or not, that might contain a unique, exact fragment of a password. To test my script, I found a file (/private/var/log/AppleJack.log.0.bz) that, when I decompressed and opened it in TextWrangler, appeared to contain the string "8CFCE322A9CB". Why isn't "/var/log/AppleJack.log.0.bz" returned in the results of the following terminal command on my system? What terminal command could I use instead to search for "8CFCE322A9CB" in text or .bz files in /private/var/log that would include "/var/log/AppleJack.log.0.bz" in its results? sudo find /private/var/log -exec bzgrep -q "8CFCE322A9CB" '{}' \; -print Thanks. Laine Lee