#: 17965 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    23-Apr-93  00:39:56
Sb: #17958-#login
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433

Boy, do you ever know how to make a fellow feel dumb! Now why would I want to
make the user the owner of this own directory? 

You hit it right on the head! Thanks for all the patience.

But, that brings up an interesting topic? How do you change the owner of a
directory? I have several different versions of chown. They all refuse to work
on a directory...they work fine on files. And I can't have the user create his
own directory....sort of defeats the whole purpose. I can't, as superuser,
change to 'Steves' ID either (or is there a command for that?

I ended up using ded to directly modify the descriptor...but that really seems
to be the hard way! Guess I could modify the password file so that I log into a
public directory (as the user), create the new directory, logout, modify the
password file again....there has to be an easier way!

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