Setting up a shared sftp file area

[gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)]

On 5/20/05, Ben Williams <ben.williams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried just
> setting up a folder owned by the group but of course that doesn't work
> because the uploaded files are owned by the user who uploaded them and
> aren't accessible to the other users.

There should be some way to change the umask such that files dropped
in by those users are group rwx-able. Otherwise, just make everyone
chmod the files g+rw(x, if applicable).

Someone smarter than me, back me up or shoot me down on this one...my
file permissions knowledge is poor.

Gordon
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