When creating a shared FTP folder on Mac OS X, the uploaded files are only accessible by the user who uploaded them. This isn’t much help if there’s a shared ftp upload folder. There’s fortunately an easy solution: Create, or edit, /etc/ftpd.conf Insert the following line into the conf file: umask all 022 Save, and restart FTP - turn file sharing off and on again in the Sharing prefpane. Make sure share by FTP is re-enabled for the folder in question, when I tested this on two machines this arvo, both machines had unticked “Share via ftp” Done.
Allowing all users to access files uploaded to OS X via ftp
When creating a shared FTP folder on Mac OS X, the uploaded files are only accessible by the user who uploaded them. This isn't much help if there's a shared...
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