You changed the umask for when a shell is invoked, but did you change
the umask option in the sshd config file?  Give that a try.

Jon

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 08:23, Brian Blater wrote:
> I have some questions dealing with umask and permissions. I have a SLES 9.1 
> server that is an apache server for our web page. We have a handful of people 
> that make changes to the web site using Macromedia Contribute. Recently I've 
> noticed that the perms get mangled when people publish their changes. When I 
> first encountered this I changed the set GUID to keep the group constant and 
> changed the /etc/profile.local to have umask 002, so new files have the 
> correct group and rw-rw-r perms. This appears to work just fine if the user 
> were to SSH to the machine and create/modify the files this way. Since, I do 
> not allow them SSH access to the box or FTP, they create/modify files using 
> contribute (using SCP or SFTP to publish the files) or using winSCP. When 
> they do this the file perms are set to rw-r--r. So, I then have to go back on 
> fix perms every time a document is published.
> 
> I must be missing something in the configuration, but somehow I need to keep 
> the umask 002 when files are created/modified using contribute or winSCP. I 
> assume it has something to do with contribute or winSCP not following the 
> umask. What can I do to fix this problem? Any ideas will be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> Brian

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