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