SUMMARY:ftp mkdir with setGID directory

This summary is WAY overdue with my original question being asked in May.

Original question:

I have a SparcStation 20 set up for students to use for a 
course.  Directories are set to have the GID bit on to force file creation 
inside of the directories to have the same group as the directory.  As such:

drwxr-s---    someuser   webgroup	someuserdir

This enables the webserver and instructors to see the directory but 
students can't see each other's directories.

Problem:

FTP clients (Unix or PC) don't seem to be able to preserve the setGID bit 
upon upload of a folder or creation of a directory.  The box is running 
Solaris's built-in FTP server.



SOLUTION:

The problem turned out to be that Sun's FTP server was not robust enough to 
preserve the setGID bit convention.  I installed proftp (www.proftpd.net) 
and the problem was solved.

Thanks to all who provided suggestions.
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