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Subject: RE: sftp removing writable bit
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:04:29 +0100
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On 12 September 2007 15:44, 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?

  <puts fingers to temples, strikes a stage mind-reader pose>

  Is it because you made a wrapper script on the server that sets the umask to
002 before starting the sftp server, by any chance?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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