perhaps someone could correct me if i'm mistaken, but shouldn't i be able to 'give' ownership of a file i own to another user, without being root? in my case i'm doing some work on a web directory owned by my user. the http user needs to be able to write to some of the directories i am creating so i've been chown'ing them to http. So far i've had to su every time i do this but it seems like i should be able to do so without root privileges. the machine i'm working on is running slackware 8.1 if it makes a difference. Thomas Johnson -------------- john4293 at umn dot edu 763.458.9071 (cell) -------------- * if it's not broken, i haven't worked hard enough. * there is little truth in men but much cunning. -peter the great _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list