RE: [cobalt-users] FTP and default rights

["Eric Arseneau" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I should have said that I have checked that, and the Umask value is 002 as
it is, but the files and dirs get created with group off.

Does this make sense or is something else the matter ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of flash22@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 8:40 PM
> To: Cobalt-Users@List. Cobalt. Com
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] FTP and default rights
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Eric Arseneau wrote:
>
> > This may be an obvious question, but here goes.  I've got a
> site setup with
> > a couple of admins.  I would like them all to be able to read
> and write to
> > any of the files and dirs on that site.  The problem is that
> when one admin
> > uploads stuff using ftp, the default is to set themselves as
> owner and only
> > have read priviliges for the group.
> >
> > How do I make it such that if any of the admins put files in,
> that the group
> > also gets write privileges automatically ?
>
> look in proftpd.conf for Umask, it determines the file permisions set by
> default (but they are inverted from the umask value) so for example
> umask 022 gives you rw-r--r-- and 002 gives you rw-rw-r--
>
> note that the umask that appears before the <VirtualHost lines if for the
> entire server...put a new Umask in the Virtuallhost block if you want to
> just change it for one site/IP (remember all sites sharing IP's get that
> setting)
>
> Be *very* carefull if you allow anonymous ftp, ;)
>
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