On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 06:48:31PM +0000, T o n g wrote: > 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.
Maybe investigate pam_umask.so and edit the appropriate PAM configuration file under /etc/pam.d e.g. sshd. No guarantees-- it's just a suggestion to try which should set the session umask on login. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- 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/20120104195211.gg18...@codelibre.net
