Once again and as always the MPE community is helpful. I'm finding myself using this forum more often. I see from these numerous posts and from some private email that we have one solution. ACDs. A third party package vendor may be interested in modifying a package to help. My original post was intended to indicate that the use of ACDs seems difficult to me. Example 1: when I want to see any ACD for my group I do a LISTFILE for the group with a "-2". I get a list of every file in the group. Not the intended list of only the ACD definitions. Example 2: I want to change every ACD which points to my group to instead point to another group but I can't just enter a command to do so. "Gibson Nichols" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:9hq13t$46g1@eccws12.dearborn.ford.com... > > I have two users in two different accounts who need different access rights > to some files in one account. Like this: > > USERA.ACCTA > USERB.ACCTB > FILEX.GROUPX.ACCTX > > Since MPE bases the access rights on the account and group of the file then > I don't see a way of providing different access rights to users outside the > account. > > I wouldn't want to use ACDs since those are so difficult to manage. > > Isn't this an advantage some other operating systems would have over MPE? > This can be done in NT for example. > > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *