Hey all,

I am having some problems with permission and proftpd. Basically I am trying to make it that whoever uploads a file to my ftp server, I want the file to have a permission of 750 I am not able to do that. I have tried putting 750 in the proftpd.conf but it doesn't work

Any help would be great

Thanks

I'm afraid this cannot be done for security reasons. See the proftpd documentation: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directiv...ref_Umask.html
for details.
What you can do is to use the "SITE CHMOD" command to change the permissions to your like after you ulpoaded the files, or run a script via cronjob to do this for you.

ftp is a very huge security issue.... always was so they sorround all sides trying to avoid any problem, sometimes this can be very annoying... but is for the good!

If you want to change some permissions you could also make a shell scipt and put it in /etc/cron.hourly or /etc/cron.dayly etc. I suggest to chown all files to some other user/group than root.
I run ftp server on my lan and I recompiled ProFTPD with these params:
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--enable-autoshadow \
--enable-ctrls \
--enable-ipv6 \
--localstatedir=/var/run \
--with-modules=mod_readme:mod_ratio:mod_tls:mod_wrap:mod_ctrls_admin:mod_md5fs:mod_sql:mod_sql_mysql:mod_qu otatab:mod_quotatab_sql:mod_quotatab_file \
--with-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-libraries=/usr/lib/mysql \

My /home/ftp/ftpusers/ dir and included files are chmod nobody.nobody and I did not experienced any problems since 3rd of Jan 2005.