Re: Permissions on received documents

[Phil Abercrombie <Philip.Abercrombie@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ>]

Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de writes:


>     Now I've noticed the "RecvFileMode" key in the etc/config.[device] file,
>     but it does not seem to make any difference.
>     
>     Has anyone come across this before? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> setting RecvFileMode to 0644 should work but I wouldn't suggest it;

I set RecvFileMode to 0640 and arrange that my etc/hosts file contains
a password-authenticated user whos fax uid is the same as the system's
gid for the 'fax' user.  

This way I have a single ftp login which can retrieve received faxes,
without opening up to everybody.

        -phil