On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 16:32 -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote: > 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.) 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050707/354c2703/attachment-0005.sig>