Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 21:11:28 EST From: barmar@Think.COM ... There's no way to do it in FTP (there's no mechanism for specifying protections in the FTP protocol). I assume then that the protections that the Unixm's ftp uses are defined/stated/set somewhere within the Unixm. Any ideas on where this is done? Is it a special default for ftp or just a unix-wide system default? Steve