Jeremy Gaddis said: > Can anyone explain to me why /root has > default permissions of 700 on a clean > install? Sorry, made a boo-boo when I wrote that. I meant to ask why were the default permissions *NOT* set to 700 on a clean install? I have multiple Debian machines and just today noticed that /root has default permissions of 755. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> <http://www.gaddis.org>