On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:03:18PM -0700, M E Fieu wrote: > Hi.. I have a unix user account for example david, which has umask 0002 in > its environment. so , if I touch a file in its home directory /home/david, > the file will have rw-rw-r-- right. But the strange thing is if I use sftp > to transfer file into the box using the same username and password, the > transferred file will appear to have rw-r--r-- right in /home/david > folder. Why ?? That's the way ftp normally works, so it makes sense that sftp behaves analogously. But try using the -P flag -- "get -P yerfile". -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
