On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Duncan Rubinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> I've changed th umask in the profile file to 000 for private reasons
> >> and this works fine directly under bash!
> >> But if I copy some files using any scp application, the files will be
> >> created with 644 as umask! Each file gets rw-r--r-- ! Don't know why
>
> IP> Two questions:
> IP> 1) are you sure your "profile" is executed on scp?
> IP> 2) why would Cygwin's umask affect Windows programs? or am I missing
> IP> something?
> IP> Igor
>
> Yes, I'm sure, 'cause before it was on 644, after my change 000 really
> works while I'm using the bash by commandline.
> The curious thing is, that only for copied files on any scp
> application (independent from the OS, Linux, Windows, etc.) app. the
> files gets the above permissions :-(
>
> Best regards,
> Duncan
So, again, is the scp application a Cygwin application, or a native
Windows application? Because if it is a Cygwin application, it should be
affected by the umask.
Igor
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