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 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
