Mandrake has a security program that resets the permissions on home directories (an much more I'm sure). cd to /etc/cron.hourly and remove the msec link. you shouldn't have any more problems with it. Chris Frederick 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20021009/ccee9036/attachment.html