Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator [goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de]: > > the goal is, that the FTP server is a Dropbox for Alice, so she can > upload files and folders and is not able to see the uploaded files > (drwx-wx--- for the main older). > > Bob should be able to rename the files and folders by ftp. (and of > course be able to download them.) > > If this is not possible with the standad permissions, I'm fine, in the > past Users did not try to upload folders and others did not rename > ...Than we look for an other workflow. You might want to look at proftpd - it has its own configs for permissions/ownerships of uploaded files - which is over and above the OS permissions/ownerships It's been a while since I used it - but I remember being able to do some 'funky stuff' in this regards ... James Pearson