Jack Your going to want to read the fine manuals for chmod chown chgrp and one of the docs on www.linuxdoc.org that discribes this in great detail. I don't remember which howto you want to read. HTH Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Jack wrote: > i was curious if anyone knows how to apply permissions such as specific > directory access, access to specific programs or utilities, and time limits > on specific users or accounts. > also i was wondering if it was possible to make groups with those > particular permissions set, so all i need do is asign the user or users to > that group. > thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >