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If I FTP a complete website directory to my RH9 Linux server with subdirectories and files, the permissions are such that everyone gets an error when trying to view the pages.
I fixed this by using chmod as follows:
chmod -vR a=rx,u+w mynewdirectory
This works but it means that everything is executable. Ideally, I would like to just make the directories executable not the files. How? Anybody know?
I was also wondering if there was a way to set the default permissions for files and directories that are FTPed.
My idea would be to use the -p option in ls and then grep the / at the end of directories like that:
ls -p | grep /
to get a list of the directories, put this into a file and write a shell script to chmod the element in the list. There probably is a more efficient way to do it, but that's what I would do!
I will give that a try. It makes sense to me in theory too but I thought there may have been a simple way.
I thought that umask would be the command I needed to set the default permissions but when I FTP files over it doesn't apply those settings. The settings in umask seem to only apply if the user creates new files on the server directly. Am I missing something with umask here? Incase setting default file permissions is dependant upon the FTP program, I am running vsftpd on the server (and I am very happy with it).
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