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From: abennett@cruzio.com (Andrew Bennett)
Subject: Re: ftpd default umask
Organization: Cruzio Community Networking System, Santa Cruz, CA
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:29:29 GMT
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netnews@harvard.edu wrote:

>I have BSD/OS 1.1 and 2.0 and I noticed that ftpd has a default
>umask 022 in both.  I'd like to change it to 002 (which among
>other things is the most common) without having the users every
>time have to change it.  I couldn't find any configuration file
>or switch that would allow an administrator to change the default
>umask, so I'm wondering if it can be done or it's hard-wired
>at compile time.

If you are using wu-ftpd, it's the 7th entry in the upload section of
/etc/ftpaccess (or equivalent).

Hope that helps.



Andrew

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