Setting up a shared sftp file area

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Monday 23 May 2005 9:44 am, Ben Williams wrote:
> Thanks, this gets me really close to what I wanted. Forcing my users'
> umask is actually no problem but it doesn't do anything because sftp/scp
> ignores the umask and maintains the permissions on the source file. Now I
> just need to find a way to force the permissions that sftp/scp uses.
scp uses the umask you set up. Remember that umask is a shell builtin and 
only applies to the current process and any subprocess that is started from 
that process.
so:
umask 0xxx
scp remote:<path> .
The file that you receive will have premissions based on your umask.
But is you send the files from a remote system, it will use the umask that 
is inherited by the ssh daemon. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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