Subject: Re: ftpd.conf's use of umask
To: noud de brouwer <noud@knot.nl>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
List: current-users
Date: 01/20/1998 21:54:58
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, noud de brouwer wrote:

: /etc/ftpchroot known user tryes useing umask chroot 0644 in /etc/ftpd.conf..

umask, not chmod - this is a file creation mode, so what you want is 022,
not 644.  See umask(2)--the numbers arethe XOR mirror image of what you
think.

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