I'm working with FME Server 2018.1.1.1 running on Linux (CentOS 7).
In my observation, if you created or uploaded a resource folder and files to an FME Server via its web interface, the owner of them would become "root" and their permissions would be set to "rwxr-xr-x" (folder) or "rw-r--r--" (files).
It may not cause any problem in most cases, but sometimes a workspace requires to update a resource file, for example updating an SQLite database. In such a case, you will have to change the permissions of the folder and the file via console of the OS or other tool like WinSCP.
It would be more convenient if FME Server web interface would have a function to change the permissions of a resource folder and files.