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Automatically Set FTP Permissions

Posted on March 8, 2015

How can we automatically set the FTP file permissions to our droplets? We want folders to be 755 and the files to be 644.



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This question was answered by @sierracircle:

are you using sFTP? using plain FTP has some serious security issues.

I think umask is what you need to work with:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/linux-permissions-basics-and-how-to-use-umask-on-a-vps

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