On Friday 28 January 2005 18:43, Robert Locke wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 18:15 -0500, Joe Szilagyi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having a brain lapse and can't find the right one off Google--what's > > the umask value to set in my FTP conf file to have final uploaded files > > *arrive* with a chmod of 777? > > > > Bad security, I know, but its for a project... thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Joe > > Hey Joe, > > Not sure that one is possible. All files start with a maximum of 666 > with the umask removing from there. Directories are the only ones that > start with 777. So a umask of 0000 would allow the maximum. It is > common convention to have to chmod +x the file to add the execute > permission that should only be needed to "execute" the file..... > > There might be something you can do within the ftp server perhaps that > could modify the behavior, but the above is standard Unix/Linux.... > > --Rob You're right - 666 is enough for a file... If you're running vsftpd then setting the anon_umask (see man 5 vsftpd.conf) to 0000 should be good enough. Peter.
