quick one--umaske for 777?

[Peter Arremann]

On Friday 28 January 2005 18:43, Robert Locke wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 18:15 -0500, Joe Szilagyi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having a brain lapse and can't find the right one off Google--what's
> > the umask value to set in my FTP conf file to have final uploaded files
> > *arrive* with a chmod of 777?
> >
> > Bad security, I know, but its for a project... thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Joe
>
> Hey Joe,
>
> Not sure that one is possible.  All files start with a maximum of 666
> with the umask removing from there.  Directories are the only ones that
> start with 777.  So a umask of 0000 would allow the maximum.  It is
> common convention to have to chmod +x the file to add the execute
> permission that should only be needed to "execute" the file.....
>
> There might be something you can do within the ftp server perhaps that
> could modify the behavior, but the above is standard Unix/Linux....
>
> --Rob
You're right - 666 is enough for a file... If you're running vsftpd then 
setting the anon_umask (see man 5 vsftpd.conf) to 0000 should be good enough. 

Peter.