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Subject:  Re: sftp removing writable bit
Date:  Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:48:58 -0700
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John J. Culkin wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload 
> a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. 
> This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file.
>
> The files are owned by the SFTP user.
>
> Any Ideas?
No ideas but a question. What is sftp good for? I mean what does it have 
over say... scp?
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