Look what the three wise men from the east have brought us: new functions for file handling (most of them are self-explanatory): // user:group, file name, true for directories FileUtils::Chown ( "nobody:nogroup", "/tmp", recursively) // access rights, file name, true for directories FileUtils::Chmod ("go-rwx", "/etc/passwd", recursively) // file name template, user:group, access rights FileUtils::MkTempFile ( "/tmp/tmpfile.XXXX", "somebody:somegroup", "744") // dir name template, user:group, access rights FileUtils::MkTempDirectory ( "/tmp/tmpdir.XXXX", "nobody:nogroup", "go+x") If you use one of the mktemp functions, do not forget to call FileUtils::CleanupTemp() somewhere in the cleanup routines of your module/client, in order to remove tmpfiles created by all previous calls to FileUtils::MkTemp* For more details and examples, see FileUtils.ycp module fB. P.S. These were actually not the three wise men :) I've coded these routines while working on YaST support for SLMS folks and they live in SlmsServerUtils YCP module in internal git repo. I thought however they might be of general interest, hence I copied them to FileUtils in yast2 base package P.P.S If anyone would like to see these routines backported to code11 (SLE11 SP1, for example), let me know -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter