Hi Mark and thanks for this bug report. I can see how the flag
introduced by the "sftp-force-permissions" patch could come handy,
however I doubt we are going to include in the Ubuntu package unless
there's a compelling reason for doing so. And if such a compelling
reason did exist, then I think it should be brought to the attention of
the upstream openssh developers, without delivering the functionality
with a distribution specific patch.

My suggestion here is to:

 - Poke upstream about this. Note that they may have a good rationale
for *not* including the patch, given that it's small and they didn't
already do so.

 - File a bug in Debian. The Ubuntu openssh package is almost a sync
from Debian, which is another good reason to avoid including an
additional delta to it, with all its long-term implications (old
memories here: [1]). If Debian includes the patch then Ubuntu will pick
it up with the following package syncs or merges.

I'm going to triage this as a Wishlist bug for now. This is not a final
word, but I doubt the importance of this bug is likely to be bumped
without a compelling use case that would be enabled by adding the patch.

[1] https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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