out of curiousity

[teamgofast]

does anyone else have issues with article images not being chmod to 644, for some reason mine are defaulting to 600 now and are not visable unless i go to ftp and chmod the files myself?

[AuroraMike]

change the directory permissions and/or chown to your apache user. those both worked for me

[baconzoo]

Similar question:
When I use the admin control panel to upload avatars or backup a database my server makes the user of those files Apache so I can't do anything with them like save them localy or even change their permissions. How can I set a server username for the php to use? I looked in config.php but didn't find anything?

Please advise.