[thelist] User permissions, ftp and apache/php

[Simon Wheatley (lists)]

Thanks for your reply.

At 12:02 13/10/2003, Liam wrote:

 > Could it be the settings of your FTP s/w?


I guess so. I'm fairly certain I'm running bsd-ftpd 0.6.0. How would I 
check if this was the problem?

 > But first checkout your new file settings as it could be that your 
system
 > insists that all files are 640.

 > Log into your shell and type the following to see what your default
 > settings are:

 > umask (to see as numbers - this is the settings that you take away from
 > other users), so if it were 002, that would = chmod 775

 > umask -S (to see as symbols, eg u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx)


The umask seems to be:
rwxr-xr-x