FTP file permission.

[Davis Paul]

Hi all,
I need to ftp one file from my windows system to HP-UX machine, and how can I set the 777 permission for that file? In ftp prompt ‘ remote site chmod 777 ’ is not working with me. Any hind to achieve this will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance,
Davis Paul.

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

At the time of ftping you cannot change the file permission into 777, for that you need to login and use chmod command.

or you can set umask 000 to get the file permisson value 777

Suraj

[Ganesan R]

Hi Davis,

You need to set/change the umask value in inetd.conf file like below.

ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l -u 000

#inetd -c

But note that, files will get only 666 only directories will get 777

[sarfaraj ahmad]

chmod will not work in windows.
you can set umask value 000 to users profile in HPUX to create files and folders with maximum permission and then logout and login again, but it will also make files with the permission of 666 through normal user login into HPUX server and 640 with ftp from windows.

you have to be change the file permission from HPUX with chmod command according to your requirement.

[Davis Paul]

I am trying with the command- "remote site chmod 666 dd.txt"
But its not working....Please check the attached output.

Davis

[Steven Schweda]

Does your FTP client want:
remote site chmod 777
or:
site chmod 777

Is chmod enabled on the server?

man ftpaccess

(Look for "Permission Capabilities".)

[Davis Paul]

This is the content of ftpacces file.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# all the following default to "yes" for everybody
delete no guest,anonymous # delete permission?
overwrite no guest,anonymous # overwrite permission?
rename no guest,anonymous # rename permission?
chmod yes anonymous # chmod permission?
umask yes anonymous # umask permission?
mkd no guest,anonymous,ftpguest
------------------------------------------------------------

[Aneesh Mohan · Accepted solution]

Dear Davis,

On windows you can use the below command to change the umask .


ftp> quote site umask 000

example:-

ftp> quote site umask 222
200 UMASK set to 222 (was 000)
ftp> put profile
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for profile.
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 2605 bytes sent in 0.00Seconds 2605000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.

Regards,
Aneesh

[Steven Schweda]

Some basic information might be useful. For
example:

> I need to ftp one file from my windows
> system to HP-UX machine, [...]

Which system is the FTP client, and which is
the server?

HP-UX version? ("uname -a".)

Are you using anonymous FTP or a real user
name and password?

> chmod yes anonymous # chmod permission?
> umask yes anonymous # umask permission?

These seem to grant chmod and umask
permission to "anonymous" users, but not to
"real" users.

man ftpaccess

[Bill Hassell]

Why would you EVER want 777 permissions? If these are data files, never give execute permission to such files. 777 will cause problems and that's why the default for umask 000 is 666 for files. Only directories will be created with 777 using umask=000.

666 is almost as bad. It means that every user on the system has the right to destroy and corrupt the data inside the file. Files should be sent to the correct user and assigned proper permissions such as 600 or 640. Allowing anyone except the owner to read or write the file is asking for trouble.

[Davis Paul]

Steven Schweda,
ftp client :- windows machine.
ftp server :-HP-UX machine.
Version:-
HP-UX B.11.31 U ia64 3370267362 unlimited-user license
Using real user and password for ftp file transfer. I have edited the ftp access file as follows:
chmod yes root # chmod permission?

Regards
Davis Paul