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 ?? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com