Hi, to not answer your question...
how about assigning group owner ship of the home directories to and administrative group: drwxrwxr-x <user> admin /home/<user> If there's to be collaboration among these users, I'd make the directories world readable, or instead of an admin group have an all users group and mod 750. I have >1,000 users and don't have difficulty with my UID not having write access to their directory, if needed `sudo -u <user> bash` does the trick nicely. -Jon
