permission bit after ftp

[Sir T S S]

hi,
how to set the permission bit,,

let say i want this id bftp to log in to system and put some file , i created home directory for it, and also set the umask to 000 in .profile, i need the file to be writable by same group. but everytime when file ftp in the permission is rw-r-----,,, and some scripts couldn't touch the file even in same group as bftp , how to control /set the permission by ftp.

any help is appreciated.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The umask in the user's .profile will have no effect but if allowed by ftpaccess the user can do a umask command within ftp before transferring the files. Man ftpaccess for details.

[Stuart Whitby]

Can't really answer the question *as such*, but if this is a regular job....

I've set up systems before where we only had one way access. This was before the days of the ITRC, so read/write access to the central server from the remote nodes was doable, but not from the central server to the remotes (wierd 4096bps satellite link - best not to ask). What we did to get around this was to set up an ftp script every 10 mins in cron to get files from a certain directory, change the permissions, run the script, then send back the output. Something similar might be workable in your case.

Just an idea....

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

Set umask for the files ftped to this server by defining in the /etc/inetd.conf

ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l -u002

Add the required umask followed by -u in the line starting from ftp.

HTH,
Devender

[Nguyen Anh Tien · Accepted solution]

Hi Sir
You can refer solutions at
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=110410
or
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000065676995

HTH
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tienna

[Sir T S S]

thanks...