Been a while since I used Mandrake, but dosnt it have some daemon that
checks permissions? If that is running, it may be putting users home
directories back to a set owner/mode. I think it has something to do
with the security setting you choose while installing.

Jay

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 07:04, Miller, John wrote:
> My dad is have the problem on Mandrake 8.0 where he changes to root, change the write permission on a different directory /home/john to allow him to write to it.  He then does an sftp into /home/john and after a couple of file transmissions the write permission disappears and he has to go and change it again.
> 
> Any idea why it is doing that?
> 
> TIA
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