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
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