File permissions when ftp
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Mar 3 13:56:27 UTC 2005
Jay Paulson wrote:
>>>> Try this:
>>>> # cd my-upload-directory
>>>> # chgrp www .
>>>> # chmod 2775 .
>>>>
>>>> See how that goes.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That worked! However, what is odd is that user1 is using Dreamweaver
>>> to upload files and user2 is using Fugu to upload files. When using
>>> Fugu it writes the file with permissions of 644. However, if user2
>>> uses Dreamweaver to upload the file it's permissions are set to 664
>>> which is correct.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Maybe Dreamweaver explicitly sets the permissions of the files? Which
>> FTP server are you using?
>>
>> Try using a command-line FTP client and experiment logging in as each
>> user and writing a file to the upload area. What permissions do they
>> get?
>>
>
> I tried it several different ways and Fugu was the only one that did
> weird things. However, I did find that it is a bug in the Fugu program
> itself
>
> https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/pipermail/scponly/2004-October/000621.html
This is an sftp issue, but you said you were using ftp - not the same
thing. Do both users use sftp, or does one use regular ftp?
> But now that I have set the group and the permissions to the directory
> to 2775 Apache doesn't like it and I get a 403 Forbidden error and I
> don't know why.
Do you have SELinux enabled?
Paul.
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