Randy's Stupid Question of the day

[Uncle Jim]

Hi,

> The problem is with file permissions in the user's HTML directories. The
> permission bits are not acting like I am wanting them to act. For example,
> I have something like this:
> 
> rwxr-xr-x randy users /www/quitequitefantastic/
> rwxr-xr-x randy users /www/quitequitefantastic/index.html
> 
> Now, when I go to update the index.html file, it turns into this:
> 
> rwx------ randy users /www/quitequitefantastic/index.html

Another thing you might want to try is to set the set-group-id bit on
your html directory (chmod 2755 ~/public_html) and see if that helps.

Jim