ftp ownership/permissions

[Mauro Livi]

Hi,
When we ftp to Unix, we're seeing that the transferred file is owned by the user doing the ftp (which is good). However, the group ownership remains that which owns the directory. For example, If I transfer a file to a directory where ownership is root:cobol, the file that I ftp will have an ownership of mauro:cobol.
What I would really like is for the group ownership to retain the user's primary group (i.e. mauro:users in my case). Make sense?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see where I can control this in /etc/inetd.conf.
Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mauro

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Mauro:

It would appear that the 'setgid' bit is set on the directory. If you receiving directory's permisssions look like:

drwxrwsrwx

...note the "s",,, then change the permissions with:

# chmod g-s /path

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mauro Livi]

JRF,
You're a genius!!!! That was EXACTLY it. Once I did the chmod it worked perfectly. I never thought of that one.

Many Thanks!
Mauro