Permissions are hard

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 19:56:40 -0700

Figuring out file and directory permissions on a server is hard.

You have to balance security with functionality. What are the most restrictive permissions you can set and still have everything work?

Set umask in vsftpd so incoming files have 644 permissions

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:09:18 -0700

If you are setting up an FTP server (I’m using vsftpd in Debian Buster), setting the umask is the way you get incoming files to “take” the right permissions.

For text files, I like the permissions to be 644, which is rw-r--r-- (read-write for user, read for group, read for the world).

To get this in vsftpd, uncomment this line:

local_umask=022

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Permissions are hard

Set umask in vsftpd so incoming files have 644 permissions