Files that are ftped to a unix/linux environment are ussally set 640 (rw-r-----) which means they are not readable by others. The ant ftp target supports a chmod attribute, it would be nice to be able to configure this: plugin.jelly: <ftp server="${pom.siteAddress}" userid="${maven.username}" password="${maven.password}" remotedir="${pom.siteDirectory}" chmod="${maven.site.ftp.chmod}"> ... </ftp> plugin.properties: maven.site.ftp.chmod = 644