Subject: Bug: Dirs. created w/ mkdir should have the owner/group of new files.

From: Ethan Bradford <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 13:38:15 -0700

Given this specification for the incoming directory,
  upload  /var/ftp  /incoming       yes  ftp  astro  0666
a new directory created in /incoming with mkdir should have owner ==
'ftp' and group == 'astro', just like new uploaded files.

At our site FTP users have the group "ftp"; we're reluctant to give
them the group "astro" because that implies certain privileges.  We
specify that any files they upload will have group == 'astro',
however, so that any of our users can delete them -- this works great.
The problem comes when they create directories with mkdir.  Then the
directories have group == 'ftp' and can only be deleted by our
overworked sysadmin.

Thanks for your time (and for creating and making available this great
package).

-- Ethan