On Thu, 22 May 2003, Rob Wultsch wrote: > What is the commmand to change ownership of a directory on the command > line? the man page for chmod is not very helpful. Use the chown(1) command. > I am trying to make a guest user account that would rx access my music, > but no access to my email and such... Maybe add a music group to your /etc/group file with the members who are a part of it. Then: chgrp -R music /path/to/your/music/directory chmod -R 750 /path/to/your/music/directory Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/