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Subject: Re: chmod and permission trouble
From: Scott Nursten (Scott.NurstenSTREETSONLINE.CO.UK)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 11:19:55 CDT

If you are telnetting / *sh'ing, set your umask on the shell. Same goes
for ftp'ing, but only on some ftp servers. I don't know if you can set
the umask of the user that runs the ftp daemon...!?!

Rgds,

Scott Nursten

"Infrastructure Dept." wrote:
>
> Here's the scenario. On my web server the permissions on the directory in
> question are 755 and the owner and group are both set to the user that is
> doing the development.
>
> Problem: Every time the developer uploads a file it sets the permissions to
> rw-r--r--. This isn't a problem except for CGI, which has to be world
> executable. Also if the developer is telneted in and copies a file the same
> thing happens to the newly created file. Even if they pico a file, make
> changes and save it with a different name.
>
> How can I force all files created within a certain directory to have 755
> permissions?
>
> Thanks
> Mr I
> Narellan (NorthEast) Inc. 

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Streets Online Ltd.

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