Subject: Re: specifying file creation permissions

From: Yanming PENG <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 95 23:49:03 WETDST

> I'm running wu-2.4(1) on a SUN platform. I'm having problems getting
> the file permissions, as specified in ftpaccess to take effect. 
> They seemed to have worked for awhile, then stopped. 

It is a known bug (or feature). I have posted it several times. No patch
available yet. But there is a workaround:

Put back the public read permission on ~ftp/incoming

> They seemed to have worked for awhile, then stopped. 

With permission 1777 on ~ftp/incoming it should work. It stoped
working when the permission changed to 1733.

> I'm trying to get file permissions of 644 and always seem to end
> up with 664 now.

I had same problem: 664 + ftp.bin ;-)

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