Re: [cobalt-users] Patch RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-13323 really messed things up

[Brian <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:08, Brian wrote:
> I've been reading through the list and seen changes for the proftpd.conf
> file regarding the SITE_CHMOD change. But has any one looked at files
> being uploaded to your servers?
> 
> I've got customers who use web cams to upload pictures via FTP. The were
> previously working, however since the upgrade I am seeing some really
> bizarre permission settings such as 0202 and 0402. I have the umask set
> to 002 in the global section.
> 
> The really troubling part was that it all worked fine before the update.

I thought I would follow up to my own post just in case anyone else has
noticed this problem. The word from Cobalt is that there is indeed a bug
in ProFTP v. 1.2.4 where the umask set in the global section causes
strange permission problems on uploaded files. It doesn't happen every
time and the perms aren't always the same. The Sun tech I spoke to told
me engineering will have to decide whether to fix the bug or work around
it in the Cobalt UI. Apparently if you set the umask on every single
virtual host instead of in the global section the problem doesn't exist.

Personally I'm sticking with the earlier release of ProFTP. At least I'm
not loosing my mind. 

-- 
Brian