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Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:37:53 -0400
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Subject:	Re: SFTP - Maintaining Windows file permissions
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Scott D Friedemann wrote:
> When a user uploads a file via SFTP, the file has permissions only for 
> the user who uploaded it.  If another users tries to upload a new 
> version, he gets a permissions error.
> 
> Is it possible to set the default so that the Windows file permissions 
> for the directory are followed?  

See 'nontsec' in <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>
for Cygwin 1.5 or 'noacl' in 
<http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount> for Cygwin 1.7.

> Or is there another method to use so 
> that all users have write access to the files?

How about chmod/chgrp/chown?  This is the way to do it from sftp.

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