Thanks for the help! I went a step further and added -u022 to the ftp line
in inetd.conf. This seems to have fixed things, and won't require the users
to have to do anything extra. Now if I can just get them to upload files
that have the same names as they put in their HTML code. :-)
Very gratefully,
Rob Wright
poncacity.net
At 05:16 PM 12/1/99 -0500 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I hope you don't need execute permission on those files. I don't think
>ftpd will do it, and nor would I were I ftpd. r and w permissions for
>group and other seem to be regulated by the umask in effect, at least
>for wu-ftpd. Oh, I don't think it will change permissions when
>overwriting an existing file. Have your user set
>
>site umask 0
>
>before uploading a new file, and see if you like the results any better.
>The normal default umask is 22, which shuts off w but leaves r. Sounds
>like you are using 66 or 77. I haven't tinkered with trying to change
>the default yet. Let's see how you go with site umask 0.
>
>Lawson
> >< Microsoft free environment
>
>This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
>
>On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Rob Wright wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've been having problems finding an answer to this problem. I have a
>user that
> > FTP's his webpage files to my server, and when he does the permissions
>are set
> > to 600, so that I have to go in and change all the permissions on
>everything.
> > If i don't, then visitors to his webpage get "permission denied" on his
>pages.
> > Can anyone give me a clue as to what's going on and how can i change
>things so
> > that the files are automatically set during the upload? This is a new
>system,
> > so not many users on it now, but I don't want to have spend all my days
>fixing
> > permissions as time goes by.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Rob Wright
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>
>
>
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