topic Re: Configuring VSFTPD file upload permission to 755 in Operating System - Linux

Configuring VSFTPD file upload permission to 755

Chan Choth PUTH — Sat, 01 Mar 2003 01:45:59 GMT

Re: Configuring VSFTPD file upload permission to 755

U.SivaKumar_2 — Sat, 01 Mar 2003 07:56:41 GMT

Dear Chan ,

Edit vsftpd.conf and put this line
local_umask=022

Restart vsftpd daemon. Hope your problem is solved.

regards,

U.SivaKumar

Re: Configuring VSFTPD file upload permission to 755

Chan Choth PUTH — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 03:22:48 GMT

Dear U.SivaKumar,

I have already editted vsftpd.conf and put this line
local_umask=022 and restart vsftpd by using /etc/rc.d/inetd restart. But the permission that I get is 644. How can I configured vsftpd to set the permission to 755? I would like all my files and directories that I upload are 755.

Regards,

Chan Choth

Re: Configuring VSFTPD file upload permission to 755

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:00:11 GMT

local_umask

Actually, you can figure this out yourself.

From the manual of umask

For example, the mask u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx (022) disables group and other write permissions. As a result, files normally created with a file
mode shown by the ls -l command as -rwxrwxrwx (777) become mode -rwxr-xr-x (755); while files created with file mode -rw-rw-rw- (666)
become mode -rw-r--r-- (644).

In fact the umask you were given is correct.

The problem is umask can't doesn't make a file executable.

There may be another parameter you can set.

Here is a workaround.

write a cron job

It checks for new files in the ftp directory.

If it finds a new file, it does this.

chmod 755 filename.

I don't know the ftp server you are using, though red hat and my backup server both user it.

just a bad guess, local_chmod 755 ?

SEP

Re: Configuring VSFTPD file upload permission to 755

Chan Choth PUTH — Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:10:01 GMT

Dear Steven,

How can I write a script to check for new files in the ftp directory and chmod them to 755?

Many thanks,

Chan Choth