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Where do I specify the default file permission. When I do a FTP I want the files to have 755 permission by default without having to change them manually. Thanks Al
Summary: it depends upon the umask set on the server where u are ftping the file too. If the umask is set something like 022 then even if you ftp the file with twx permission for others, it will make it read o...
Summary: When ftp makes the remote connection, it does not execute the login profile of that account, so it is not picking up that umask. Before you do the put, ftp should allow you to execute a umask command,...
Summary: Readers will be familiar with the idea of returning the permissions of a file using the ls -l command, which, amongst other things, returns file permission information as shown in this example: -rwxr-...
