On Son, 12 Jan 2003 at 14:34 (+0100), ernst wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > > One more dumb question...how do I know my user ID? > > cat /etc/group |grep your_username Useless use of cat award ;-) grep your_username /etc/group But so you will not get the _user_ id. Try /etc/passwd instead. or: getent passwd your_username or: id Jan