Thanks all! Setting umask 000 on the one user only netted files with 666. It's a restricted user with a password, for uploading graphics--that user is simply segregated from the main domain, and the primary username in the group needed to be able to read/write files easily that were owned by the alternate user without any chowning/cronning solutions possible. That did it, thanks! Regards, Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 7:56 PM Subject: Re: quick one--umaske for 777? 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? > AFAIK this can't be done. Umask of 000 would theoretically produce what you want, but linux refuses to create files that are executable for security reasons. The best it will allow is 666 on the files uploaded. A quick proof of that would be to set your own umask to 000 then create a new file and look at the permissions. Allowing uploaded files to have mode 777 with a public FTP site would be one of the worst mistakes I can think of because it would allow anyone to put an executable file in your ftp site that could be then executed for the creators purpose, what ever that may be (and usually not for your benefit) > Bad security, I know, but its for a project... thanks. > It may be possible to have ftp run a script when the upload completes to set the mode, or to modify the program itself to do that, or to have cron reset the mode on all files periodically. > Regards, > Joe > > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
