On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:21:49PM -0500, Chris Shaffer wrote:
> If I set the checkboxes to
> -rw------- it reports umask 600 and if I set it to -rw-rw-r-- (what I want)
> it reports umask 644.
Bugs. At least, -rw-rw-r-- should be called "664 permissions" not 644.
I'll forgive the inversion of the umask as a Windows bastardization,
but 664 vs. 644 is quite wrong.
> I'm not entirely clear on what you mean about setting the umask when I
> start sshd, or modifying my boot script. Are these things that the server
> admin would need to change in their setup of SSH on their server?
Quite possibly. sshd is the ssh daemon, which would be running on Unix.
I haven't actually experimented with restrictive umask settings in sshd's
startup environment, so I don't know the effect it has -- but this is
a common complaint with traditional ftpd implementations, so it probably
carries over to sftp also.
