Hi Everyone. Still working on that VPS w/o a control panel. Got the FTPD server up and running..... Now I am trying to add a user, defining the directory & no shell. User : klsmith03 Password : test03 After much research I came up with the following command. useradd -d /home/klsmith03/public_html -m - g ftpuser -p test03 -s /bin/ftp klsmith03 I get error : useradd cannot create directory /home/klsmith03/public_html I googled and found some others are having the same problem. The answer on every post was to add the -m argument. As you can see I have the -m argument in my command. I've moved the -m argument around but I still get the same error message. Any help much appreciated Keith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com