UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am having a major issue with our server...
In our web application, we have a feature by which a client can upload a file and submit the page...

This was a feature which was working fine till recently...we changed the server and I guess some settings changed.

Now it keeps throwing an apache error saying file not writable and pointing to the folder where i want it to be uploaded.

I initially changed the rights using chmod
When that didnt work I checked the umask and found it was 077

The two users who would access the folder belong to the same group ....

I tried changing this setting in several ways.
1) directly going to the folder umask 022
2) changing /etc/.login which had a setting 077 to 022

however it keeps reverting back to 077 ....


Please help

I believe you need to change the default umask for ftp protocol...

I think we had this problem when we switched from normal ftp to secureftp.

Test if the umask command works:
umask 022
If it works, add this line to the .login file
And also check your login shell, if it is bsh or ksh, you should find .profile file and add the same line to that file
hope this can help.

Do you really want to be using a umask of 022? You end up allowing read by everyone. If you are trying to limit access to two users with read on the group bit, wouldn't 027 be a better option?

Cheers,

Keith