A simple command no doubt, but it escapes me: I need to allow only TWO users on the same machine (root and "franken") to have read, write and delete permissions allowed over the contents of a single network-shared folder. Everybody else on the network is read only. I'm certain there is a simple solution, but being a new user I haven't found it yet. Help anyone please? Thx.

Root can have pretty much read/write/execute permissions anyway on everything so it is more likely that you need to restrict the file just down to the other user. GNU/Linux files and directories can have 3 permissions set (read, write and execute) for 3 different catagories (owner, group and everyone). You can change the ownership of something with "chown", the group with "chgrp" or more complicated permissions with "chmod". I would suggest having the file as read/write for the owner franken, have read/write for the group root and read only for everyone else. $ chown franken /path/to/file # chgrp root /path/to/file $ chmod 664 /path/to/file $ man chmod for more info....