ftp from SGI to SUN: wrong permissions!!!

[Claude.P.Cantin at nrc.ca]

We have, at our site, a combination of SGIs and SUNs.  When using ftp to
transfer a file from the SGI to the Sun, I end up with permissions

   rw-rw-rw

on the file (try it on the password file: ftp> put /etc/passwd passwd).
It does not seem to matter on which machine I ftp from/to, the permissions
always end up as above (as long as the file goes from SGI to Sun...).

My "umask" is set to "022" on both systems.  Any suggestions????  Thanks,

  Claude Cantin  (cantin at vm.nrc.ca, cantin at nrccsb3.di.nrc.ca, and many more)