| Servers here won`t have a problem with permissions becuase your acocunt admin user has super privileges over all files and this is what you typically use for ftp and ssh
As for the server process reading it this can also read any file under you file structure.
The problem only occurs when apache is configured as an un privilged user for security reasons on insecure systems. UH use a CHROOT system for its security and this is by far the best and easiest to use. Not sure how easy it is to configure though.
Simon |