Dave wrote: > good. The problem is permissions were not transfered and i thought that was > the point of -p for scp. Did i miss something is there a command i have to > use for the new box to pick up the permissions from the old box? The -p preserves the date/time and modes, but not the actual UID/GID. Try using rsync with ssh instead, something like: rsync -avz -e ssh --delete /home/ user at host:/home This has the added benefit that if it fails midway (network dies, e.g.) you can just re-run it to start where you left off. Note the trailing slash on the source /home/, that's important. -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com