On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:23:12 +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> If users scp/sftp to my host, how is the default mode of files copied >> determined? Is it from users' umask in their ~/.profile, or somewhere >> else? > > For ssh connections I'm not sure this still applies. Look at "man 8 > sshd" and scroll down to the "login process" section.
>From which it looks like one's ~/.profile setting (eg umask) is not honoured when doing scp. That complies with my observation. From How the SCP protocol works http://blogs.oracle.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works It looks like scp will just blindly apply 0644 to files and 0755 to directories. However, I was trying to enable the group write bit. Thanks anyway. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/je26tv$9ec$2...@dough.gmane.org
