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Operating Systems HP-UX Insufficient permissions on ftp'ed files from WIN2K to HP-UX Post 51295 by Perderabo on Saturday 15th of May 2004 11:46:39 PM
Old 05-16-2004
Things aren't quite that simple. When you say "change someone's umask", what exactly do you mean? You probably mean changing a umask command in a start-up file like .profile. That is fine if you are running a shell that reads the script.

But an ftp session doesn't involve a shell. Changing .profile doesn't change anything there.

What to do depends on which ftp server you are running. The standard ftp server delivered with HP-UX has a umask option. See the man page. You can add that option to the ftpd line in /etc/inetd.conf. But it is a global change and will affect every ftp user on the box.

A second option would involve modifying the application. A user who connects via ftp gets the default umask. But the user can issue a umask command to change the umask. Also a user can issue a chmod command to change the permissions on a file. Scan down on that same man page to info about the umask and chmod commands. If you can get the application to do one or the other, that would solve the problem.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

ftp

ftp(4)								   File Formats 							    ftp(4)

NAME

       ftp - FTP client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/default/ftp

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the ftp file to configure the behavior of the FTP client. Lines that begin with a hash symbol ("# ") are treated as comment  lines and
       are ignored.

   Behavior Directives
       The ftp file supports the following behavior directives:

       FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST=yes | no

	   The ls command of the ftp client sends an NLST to the FTP Server by default. Several non-Solaris clients send LIST instead. In order to
	   make the Solaris ftp client send LIST when the ls command is issued, set FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST to no. The value of FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST is yes
	   by default.

       If the user sets a value for FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST in the user's environment, this value will override any FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST directive that	is
       specified in /etc/default/ftp.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbipr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftp(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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