> Next time you are stuck, just use Konqueror.  Right click the directory, chose
> Properties from the pulldown menu and select the Permissions tab.  The basics
> are all there and fancy stuff is in the Advanced button.  It's so easy, my
> wife could do it.
> 
> More importantly, there's no file on her machine that root does not have
> permission to do this with.

Should I take this to mean that I should give up on Gnome and move to KDE ;)

> >
> > > I think most of MS's security problems come from the desktop
> > > nature/feature support focus of the company as Andrew does.  ...
> 
> > We are going to have to disagree here.
> 
> Are we of two minds today?

I disagreed with his thinking that it wasn't a good idea to dumb down
security and systems administration.  "Everyone" having Change access 
is greater than a file having 0x777...

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