I figure the password is a field that contains the crypted pass and the crypting method.

You insert only a plain password (without crypting) and i think that is the problem.

You can review how Plone join new users into the acl_users folder.

This is a follow up to my previous message in case my problem and solution can help someone somewhere :) Thank you, Manuel Saelices, for your response. However, the problem was not that I was passing the password as plain text. I made AccessControl/User.py spit out the password before and after the encryption process and it always stayed as plain text, even when adding users manually. After looking more closely at my Zope instance, I came across portal_registration and its API. I ended up using portal_registration.addMember. As an extra, it also creates the member's folder that contains their files and pictures (for use in forums). But why does addMember work and not userFolderAddUser, beats me. Ib __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree