Setting up a shared sftp file area

[Jerry Feldman]

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 9:01 am, Ben Williams wrote:
> On 5/25/05, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > This is not going to work because there are 3 different sessions. The
> > umask you set for session 1 will not apply to session 2 because session
> > 2 is a different process and not a subprocess of session 1.
>
> Yeah, I put session 1 in to demonstrate that my startup scripts are
> setting the umask. My hope was that scp invokes the shell the same way
> and should therefore have the same umask. I think I found my problem,
> though: OpenSSH only started respecting the umask as of version 3.7
> (according to the release notes[1]), and RH9 is on version 3.5.
>
>   [1]: http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-3.7
Ok though I don't see it in the above release notes.

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