Ok...got about a bazillion responses. Thanks all. There were are lot of differing opinions on whether or not you can change the default permissions on files that are FTPd to the unix server. Some people said straight out that this can NOT be done at all...for security reasons. Some suggested that the standard ftpd cannot do this, but installing an alternative FTP server program would allow this to be done. I won't go into what everone suggested, but there were MANY opinions--most of which contradict each other. Anyway, most people suggested using the "umask 022" command. I couldn't get this to work. I tried what a few people suggested (putting the umask 022 command in the users .profile file), and that didn't seem to do much of anything (btw, the umask seems to be set at 022 for every user already). I also tried going in as root and "umasking the directory" where the FTP files will be put, by typing umask 022, and that didn't work either. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I'm doing exactly what quite a few people suggested. Anyway, I'm thinking of looking into some of the other FTP server software, or client software...things like proftp, Samba, and ASU. Or maybe I'll just ignore this one silly programmer, because I have more than enough to do, rather than worrying about his lack of desire to login and type "chmod 755 <filename>" I mean...hello? How hard is that?!? Anyway, thanks again for the suggestions to all that responded. =)
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
Received on Wed Feb 27 2002 - 18:50:10 NZDT