On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Note, however, that some applications ignore[1] this (many of this set > also ignore umask) and will create files with their own idea of the > "correct" ownership, often without providing a way to override this > (mis)behaviour. Given that the OP's issue is in respect to an ftp > arrangement, I suspect that the issue here is likely to be caused by > such an application.[2] Sometimes that kind of problem can be fixed by writing a script to launch the program. The script might do something like record the time at execution as a variable, launch the program, then when the program terminates, the script continues by changing the permissions on all files with a certain extension modified or created since the script launched (e.g., using "find"). Mike