Thank-you, Samuel. I did the experiment. Both the double-quotes and the square brackets had to be deleted. The result worked for user1 and user2 being regular users. Next I'll edit root's .bash_profile, and see if the solution works when user2 is root. Actually, user2 almost always is root. Bill. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx