Not able to give read and write permissions to user

[apoorvs7]

I am give a 3 digit value to vsftpd config parameter but i am not getting required file permission as that of benchmark version! I am stuck here for about 3 hours!

[imbipulkumar]

Hey @apoorvs7, can you be more specific about the issue you facing?

[nabhanpv]

@apoorvs7
If you are mentioning about Milestone 3, this might help

Module 4 milestone 3 how to change permission

@Monika11sharma This was one of my key takeaways from module 4 The umask is used to remove from the default assigned permissions certain permissions in different scenarios. So, contrary to normal file access permissions we set for files using chmod this works in reverse. Normally, file permissions default to 664. Now, let’s say a new user logged in and he is not the owner of the file. If we don’t want him to make changes to the file, we set a umask of 020 to not give him write access. Here, t…

[apoorvs7]

Thanks for your help, also that article helped me to understand the unmasking better!

[nabhanpv]

Feels great to hear that