On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:36 pm, someone wrote offlist: > 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.) Thanks in advance. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services 1254 So Waterman Ave., Suite 50, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Our blists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"