.profile ran?

[Brian Overman]

Can anyone verify or tell me if the .profile is ran when a login opens a FTP session. I don't believe it is, but I am looking for clarification. Also if not, does anyone know how to use a command to set files created by that login to a specific permission. (CHMOD does not appear to work within FTP)

Thanks for any help!

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Brian,

Ftp (or more properly ftpd) does not source .profile when a user logs in. Chmod within ftp does work but you have to have the proper permissions (i.e. own the file or be a privilidged user).

Regards, Clay

[Joseph C. Denman · Accepted solution]

no, the .profile is not read.

set permissions:

modifiy the inetd.conf file. add the -u opion to your ftpd entry.

example /usr/lbin/ftpd -u 022


hope this helps.

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[Joseph C. Denman]

after you make modifications to the inetd.conf, you will need to restart inetd.

inetd -c

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