->What I think would be right would be to give the USER full rights of his

own dir and then it's up to the administrator and/or that USER whether others may read or write there (and who).

Hmm, I dont' have a lot of control over the setup of where stuff is. But the real point is it all works great if console login is set. Just that under KDM It doesn't seem to run .profile or .bash_logout, and I am curious what are the equivlants that are run. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e