I've been toying around with the umask command, but still have yet gotten the file permissions to work how I want them to. I took your advice and looked up some info on umask. The internet site I found said to issue the command umask 002 in order to set the permissions to -rw-rw-rw-. After creating the file with my script, the permissions are indeed set to -rw-rw-rw- and the owner is "99". How come I still can't edit this file through my script or through my own username? Any suggestions?