Krish Krothapalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When using wget ftp://XXX, is it intentional to preserve server > permissions when using wildcards?
It's intentional. Wildcards force Wget to retrieve the full directory listing, which has a side-effect that more information is available. The remote permissions are an example of that information. The "exact" sizes of files (for an admittedly odd definition of exact) are another -- that's why Wget doesn't call the length "unauthoritative" when you're using wildcards. But you have a good point. If your groups and users differ from those on the remote site, blindly copying permissions can do more harm than good, and can in fact pose a security risk. Mirroring remote permission should be controlled with an option, which should probaboly default to "off". I've added that to the TODO list; thanks for the report.
