scp/sftp umask

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Author: Chris Gehlker
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Subject: scp/sftp umask
On Feb 5, 2004, at 7:50 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

>
> Sounds like a simple WinSCP bug. Their site isn't responding right now
> so I can't tell if it's a known bug. Actually, I guess "bug" is too
> strong since I've never seen a claim that WinSCP pays any attention to
> umask in the documentation. Call it a misfeature.


Responding to my own post.

I found a site which claims that WinSCP has it's own mechanism for
changing file properties on the target machine. I'm going to guess that
it's doing a chmod on the files after creating them. I'd investigate
the WinSCP docs.