[buug] Re: Access control

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Mon Nov 18 15:04:24 PST 2002


Quoting Bill Honeycutt (wfhoney at pacbell.net):

> Aaron got it in one...
>  umask [-p] [-S] [mode]

In other words:

1) You're _not_ using scp; you're using pscp.
2) Which doesn't even attempt to address permissions, but rather leaves
   them to the target machine.  Which of course implements its umask.
3) So, if you want a different umask, change it.

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