-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I found the problem I was having earlier and fixed it. I still don't understand it, so maybe someone can enlighten me. I created a group (kdev) in Yast and added my userid to it. This was also set to the group owner of a directory. Even so, I couldn't write to the directory. I finally did a "groups" command, and I saw that my userid did not reflect itself as belonging to "kdev" - even though Yast (and /etc/group) clearly showed that it was. This didn't change until I logged off and logged back in. I understand the system caching the group list for efficiency, but shouldn't the cache have been refreshed after I made the modifications? I thought Yast took care of that (obviously, I was wrong). Is there another way to force the groups list to be refreshed. Having to logoff - or reboot - is so ... Windows like. Would someone please enlighten me. Inquiring minds want to know. <g> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAnpISjeziQOokQnARAmNdAJ9GGnAtbLTdlqtxgJpROohGb/jH8gCbBaBx /nAZl/uc7fG+bNZzUw3Pp6o= =eLYt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----