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 > > John Miller > Software Developer > Phone: 612-547-7573 > Fax: 612-547-7580 > Mail Stop: T23 > MailTo:john.miller at rbcdain.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list