At 09:51 PM 11/29/1998 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: >On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 08:33:03PM -0600, William Flores wrote: >> I have a couple of ??'s here...and I'm still new to linux...but have felt >> 1st question: I have /etc/skel w/ public_html in it... I have /etc/skel ><snip ls output> > >Is the /home directory sgid as well? I believe this is why the other >directories become +s. Either way I personally prefer to setup >adduser.conf to not create groups for each user but instead use group >users or staff, then you can chmod -s /home.
Yes it was....fixed. Also got rid of the groups and redid the user id's from scratch. ><snip> >> Now if I were to u/l a file via WS_FTP say download.html here is what happens: >> > >This has to do with possibly your ftpd, not sure why it uses that umask, >but see if it is defined in the ftpd config somewhere, it's also possible >that you ftp client is doing this intentionally from some setting, have >you tried another ftp client perhaps a unix one? > Well..I did switch to Netscape and u/l there....both times.. same thing happened - permission denied... But couldn't discover how or where it was doing it... :) Any other ideas..like how to change the permissions the the users group uses?? Let's try again.
