You probably want to chown the file instead of chmod it. chown seconduser filename -- Please take my advice, I don't use it anyway ... Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net Richard Wells astoundedly stated the following on 01:30 PM 5/23/2003: >Hello, > >I copied a .pinerc file from one user directory to another. Now, the >second user cannot change the file. How should I shmod the file so the >second user has rights to it? Right now, only root has rights to it. The >reason I did this was to make only a couple of modifications to an already >configured .pinerc from the original user's directory so the second user >will have the same basic configuration as the first user. > >Thanks for any clarification on this. > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup