Dear Lists, This is perhaps slightly off topic, so bear with me. :-) I am interested to know, how many of you, actually use a non-root account to get work done. Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being logged in as root?? For example, most of my bash scripts that I write, require the use of certain files, which, if not ran as root, would require me to run numerous chmod/chgrp commands to get them to run. How have people, gotten around this?? Regards, Thomas Adam Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: office@purbeck.dorset.sch.uk The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk