Hi, Within a python file I do a call to thread.start_new_thread(...). Before this call, I am the admin user (verified by calling AccessControl.getSecurityManager().getuser().getUserName()). After the call, however, in the new thread, the user is now "Anonymous User". Is there any way to somehow "pass" the user between threads because the code executed in the new thread needs the same permissions as the code executed in the old thread? I can obviously pass the user name to the new thread, but I'm not sure if that does me any good, because I doubt an Anonymous User would have permission to make itself another user. Any hints or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, --Toby. --------------------------- Toby Gustafson Senior Software Engineer Tyrell Software Corporation Email: tobyg@tyrell.com ---------------------------