Chaning File Permission after FTPing

[Shahbaz_1]

Hi,
When I FTP a file from DOS to Unix (hpux 11i),
the file permission is -rw-r-----.
HOw should I change the file permissions, when FPTed?
Please ...

Thanks Regards
Syed

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

this is a security feature of ftp.
you can't.

You can try to shell
!chmod $i

if you use a shell script to ftp for you

Later,
Bill

[Niraj Kumar Verma]

Hi,

you can use a tool called CuteFtp and define the umask value (file permission)

If using unix you get a option

ftp> umask

will print the current umask value

--Niraj

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

You can change umask in ftpd daemon on HP-UX, but affect all ftp sessions.


You must configure /etc/inetd.conf.


Read man ftpd first.

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

You can change the default permissions by setting the umask in the ftpd options within your /etc/inetd.conf:

Example

ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l -u 077 -t600

The umask of 077 allows only the permissions of eg. 600 (rw-------) for default system permissions of 666.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Mohammad Iqbal_1]

Hi..
I supposed we can dot that, but.. we can't change the file permission while FTP. But we can use umask command before we execute FTP.

Example:
I used umask command:
# umask u=rwx,g=,o=

Then i FTP to another host to get a file whose permission is different with my 'umask'.

Then when the FTP is close, i have the file with the permission similiar to my 'umask'.

Try this..!

[David Burgess]

To get round the problem here we always send a file with the same name. We touch the file on the unix server and then chmod it to what it needs to be. Then everytime we send the file the permissions stay the same.

Dave.