[ILUG] Ownership of ftp upload files

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Cormac McClean wrote:

> Hi,

> Is there a way to assign the group owner of ftp-ed files
> to nobody automatically (perhaps using the upload setting
> of the /etc/ftpaccess file, or does this only apply to
> anonymous access?).
> 

try chown nobody.nobody <...>/upload
chmod ug+s <...>/upload

setuid/setgid bit on directories causes files to be created with the
directories uid/gid.

> I am trying this at the moment and looking up reference manuals,
> but if anyone has done this before and can offer advice
> I would appreciate it. (No point reinventing the wheel every
> time.)
> 
> Regards,
> Cormac.
> 
>