Alright, I'm trying to use ARD to issue a one-line command that will step through all the directories in /Users and assign recursive proper ownership. I don't care if it errors on the Shared folder, I have a login hook to blast that to 777. I have no clue as to the proper syntax of the thing although if I were using a script to do this I imagine it would use a foreach command to parse the usernames from the individual directories themselves and then assign ownership based on that username. Kinda like this: Foreach directory in /Users assign name to $username if $username=="Shared" then next endif chown -R $username:admin /Users/$username or something like that. I'm not a programmer, heck, I'm not even a shell-scripter. I just need a little push with the syntax. If I have to push and run a script remotely to do this I'll do that. Thanks.