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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 17:32:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Duncan Rubinger <duncan AT semanticedge DOT de>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem: SCP and umask ?!
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Duncan Rubinger wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >> I've changed th umask in the profile file to 000 for private reasons
> >> and this works fine directly under bash!
> >> But if I copy some files using any scp application, the files will be
> >> created with 644 as umask! Each file gets rw-r--r-- ! Don't know why
>
> IP> Two questions:
> IP> 1) are you sure your "profile" is executed on scp?
> IP> 2) why would Cygwin's umask affect Windows programs?  or am I missing
> IP> something?
> IP>         Igor
>
> Yes, I'm sure, 'cause before it was on 644, after my change 000 really
> works while I'm using the bash by commandline.
> The curious thing is, that only for copied files on any scp
> application (independent from the OS, Linux, Windows, etc.) app. the
> files gets the above permissions :-(
>
> Best regards,
> Duncan

So, again, is the scp application a Cygwin application, or a native
Windows application?  Because if it is a Cygwin application, it should be
affected by the umask.
	Igor
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