The Linux umask setting plays a big role in determining the permissions that are assigned to files that you create. But what’s behind this variable, and how do the numbers relate to settings like rwxr ...

Halloween has come and gone. In fact, so has Thanksgiving. But some masks are always appropriate – not because we’re trying to inspire people to give us candy, but because it’s just too easy to end up ...

I once locked myself out of my files with a simple mistyped command. This was the first time I rendered my Linux installation unusable, and it was because I didn’t understand permissions. While I ...

Recall also that we set the group permissions on this directory to r-x, that is, group-readable and group-executable, so that our fellow members of the drummers group could enter this directory and ...

I restarted ssh after each attempt. In both cases when I upload a file with the SFTP user it gets 644 permissions. I am not trying to chroot the user. OK so I think I understand what is going on. The ...

Okay, I looked up umask and bsd-ftpd and I couldn't find a relevent post.<BR><BR>I updated my Debian box and it recommended I switch from my old install of Pro-FTPD to BSD-ftpd, which I did since I ...