File permissions when ftp

[Paul Howarth]

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.