Hi Olaf,

1) There are lots of implementations of the ftp client that support the -p option to preserve permissions and ownership on transferred files.  Unfortunately, HP-UX's (which I assume you are using) does not.  If you're willing to go OpenSource, there's Yafc which does (http://yafc.sourceforge.net).

2) That said, you *can* use the chmod and/or umask commands in ftp to explicitly set the permissions of any/all files that you put on a remote system.  If all the files need the same values, you can chmod or umask once, followed by the mput and all the files will get the same value.  For example:

	chmod 444
	mput *

results in all remote files having permissions 444

3) For multiple source with differing permissions, you can create a ftp dialogue snippet to issue the commands dynamically (here's a quick-and-dirty version):

	perl -le 'printf "chmod %o\nput %s\n",07777 & (stat)[2],$_ for @ARGV'  filespec

(where filespec is the list of files you want to process - if you don't include filespec, it will default to *).  Let's use a sample filespec of m* (files starting with m).  With my current directory:

	ll m*
	-rwxr-xr-x   1 rgoldman   mpe            155 Feb  8  2013 ms
	-rwxrwxrwx   1 rgoldman   mpe            100 Jul 19 09:56 mt
	-rwx------   1 rgoldman   mpe            772 Jun 17 01:55 mu
	-rw-r-----   1 rgoldman   mpe            393 Jun 18 01:17 mut
	-rw-r-----   1 rgoldman   mpe            382 Jul 26 03:54 mvt

I run the command against this set of files and get as output:

	perl -le 'printf "chmod %o\nput %s\n",07777 & (stat)[2],$_ for @ARGV' m*       
	chmod 755
	put ms
	chmod 777
	put mt
	chmod 700
	put mu
	chmod 640
	put mut
	chmod 640
	put mvt

Just take the results and include it into your ftp command dialogue.

3) Instead of using ftp, use scp or sftp which DO support the -p option and are much more secure.

Hope this helps.

Ric Goldman
Spellbinder Systems Group 

>Date:    Fri, 13 Sep 2013 09:13:13 -0400
>From:    Olav Kappert <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Unix permissions retained through FTP
>
>I know that this forum is for MPE but most of us have had some experience using Unix.
>
>I am using FTP to copy a file from one unix box to another.  The target file does not have the same permissions as the source.
>
>Does anyone know how to get the same permissions attached to the source file ?
>
>Remember that multiple files can be transferred through 'mput' so any solution needs to be applied to all the files transferred.
>
>Olav.

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