X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: sftp removing writable bit Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:24:14 +0100 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <46E7FB17.3030904@scranton.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com * Andrew DeFaria (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:49:49 -0700) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Andrew DeFaria (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:48:58 -0700) > >> John J. Culkin wrote: > >>> 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? > > > > You can use your favourite FTP client, right?! > As opposed to just typing scp? I still don't get it... Yes. Some clients (by coincidence my favourite ones) like yafc, lftp and SpeedCommander do sftp. Lftp even does fish (which I think is "pure" scp/ssh). Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/