I set up a box to be a server and now I'm creating all the files I need for the website. I'm using remote access to go in do the designing. My problem right now is that everytime I make a file using remote access the files I create do not have the read permission for others. This causes a problem as the user that's running apache, I'm assuming is nobody, can't read it and thus I get a file permission error when I try to look at it. How do you make it so the files you create in the future have the same permissions?

I have never used remote access (remote desktop?) but thought it was just a vncserver so it is the same as though you are sitting at the remote machine in person. Depending on your file system type you may want to look at the mounting options in /etc/fstab. Possibly pass a grpid equal to a group that the user "nobody" is in. If using samba to transfer files check your "create mask" and "directory mask" values in smb.conf.

Actually I just set up vsftp and I use Zend to log into it. When I said remote access I was just referring to accessing it remotely, not any remote desktop or anything. So which do I have to look at? /etc/fstab or vsftp? Hello world!

man umask You will want to use something like "umask 0022" for rw-r--r-- file permissions.

Thank you, I did some research last night and I figured it out. My main problem was that I was using vsftp and by defaut it sets umask to 077, so it was all private. I fixed it and now things are working fine. Thanks for the help. Hello world!