On Monday 09 May 2005 09:53, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > as superuser, how can we set up the default niceness for a given user ? You can set a pri= option in the comment field of /etc/passwd, and edit login.defs to use it, afaik. Not sure if it's *quite* that simple though, since I've never done it. -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address.