On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 16:32 -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:

On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:36 pm, someone wrote offlist:

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how is the user logging in -- what username? and what are the ownerships and permissions on /home/jlasman/ ?

The user on my local desktop is jlasman. /home/jlasman is myself as a local user on my desktop system. Which is Mandriva 2005 LE. But I don't think that should matter.

The remote server (running CentOS 4.1) user is test, set up as a standard user with adduser and passwd. But I did change the the default shell to "nologin". However nologin IS listed in /etc/shells, so my understanding is it should work.

The file I tried to transfer is:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 jlasman jlasman 2505 Jun 27 15:34 xorg.conf.work

The permissions for /home/jlasman are:

drwxr-xr-x 33 jlasman jlasman 4096 Jul 6 22:07 /home/jlasman/

Any help appreciated.

(Though I know you wrote me offlist, the questions are good and helpful and I can only hope you won't mind my responding onlist in an attempt to get as much help as possible.)

so ... on the server, you are logging in as the user "test" ? ... (if I read your e-mail correctly) ... and not jlasman.

That would be the user who owns the file on the server, and it should be in that user's (test) home directory.

Maybe I am not understanding your e-mail.