> I'm pretty sure all sane user and admin tools forbid this, > although if you edit /etc/passwd (shadow?) directly, you deserve > your BOFH award. :)
Thanks everyone for your input and i used successfully chown/chmod in my routines as provided by John Krahn. Yes, it is username and not the uid!! I don't know for whatever reasons the username shows up some 'numeric numbers' right after open replicator copying of data between emc arrays. Pad -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/