On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:49:39 +0100 David Dorward <dorward@gmail.com> wrote: > Something along the lines of: > > chmod -R 700 ~/ > find ~/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; > > might do what you want. Would it be better to do this? find ~/ -P -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; find ~/ -P -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; Just thinking that following symbolic links might not be such a good thing. Later, Seeker