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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / October 2004OT: what happened to my permissions?
Please forgive the OT nature, but I just know you will be able to help. I upgraded an old Mac I use as a server from 10.1 to 10.2. After the upgrade, the webserver Documents folder had all the wrong permissions. I had to log in via the terminal and CHMOD various things. All is working well now, but not for *new* files. Every new file I upload has the permissions "-rw-r-----" although the enclosing folder itself is "drwxr-xr-x". I'm a bit confused about this, and the more I read about UMASK the more confused I get. Short version of question: how do I set the default permissions, permanently, recursively, for all new files uploaded to /Library/WebServer/Document/ ? Other questions: If I do a "rebuild permissions", will it fix this? Will it over-ride various folders which are world-writable so I have to go back and CHMOD again? Can I run "rebuild permissions" in Terminal or only from the GUI? And finally, if anyone's really annoyed by this being OT, where should I go to ask for this kind of help in future? ------------------------------------------------------------ "Have You Validated Your Code?" John Horner (+612 / 02) 9333 2110 Senior Developer, ABC Online http://www.abc.net.au/ ------------------------------------------------------------ > Please forgive the OT nature, but I just know you will be able to help. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Every new file I upload upload from where and how? > has the permissions "-rw-r-----" although the enclosing folder itself > is "drwxr-xr-x". I'm a bit confused about this, and the more I read [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > If I do a "rebuild permissions", will it fix this? Will it over-ride > various folders which are world-writable world writeable? whaddaya wanna doodatfer? > so I have to go back and CHMOD again? Can I run "rebuild permissions" > in Terminal or only from the GUI? > > And finally, if anyone's really annoyed by this being OT, where should > I go to ask for this kind of help in future? http://discussions.info.apple.com/ Admitted, it doesn't exactly look obvious, but if you go looking starting here you can find a "unix" forum under both Panther and Jaguar. (It's a little better hidden under 10.2.) If you look closely, it's the same forum. If you have a (free) developer account already, you can use the same login name and password to post questions. Not having done what you did, I'm not going to take a stab at your other questions. But what does umask without any arguments tell you? Something like 037 or 015? -- Joel Rees even though much of what I do is not sensible it does make sense if you know why ... >>Every new file I upload > >upload from where and how? From my desktop machine to the server, using FTP. >>If I do a "rebuild permissions", will it fix this? Will it >>over-ride various folders which are world-writable > >world writeable? whaddaya wanna doodatfer? I have some folders within the webserver to which scripts write. There's probably a more secure/sensible way to do it it know, but it's my server and I know all the people who might use it and it's inside the firewall etc etc. Is it more sensible to write to a tmp folder outside the web-accessible areas or something? >what does umask without any arguments tell you? Something like 037 or 015? It just says "2". ------------------------------------------------------------ "Have You Validated Your Code?" John Horner (+612 / 02) 9333 2110 Senior Developer, ABC Online http://www.abc.net.au/ ------------------------------------------------------------ The problem is now fixed, thanks for your patience. In case anyone needs to know, the problem is with the ftpd daemon; for some reason after the upgrade its default umask was 002 when previously it was 022. The solution is to create, if it doesn't exist, a file at /etc/ftpd.conf containing the line umask all 022 and restart FTP sharing. |
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