How to force permission rights when sending files over SFTP
Issue
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When uploading files using SFTP, permissions are always set to 644 and I want 664 instead
$ sftp mysftpserver sftp> !ls -l myfile -rw-rw-r--. 1 rmetrich rmetrich 0 Dec 15 09:49 myfile sftp> put myfile Uploading myfile to /root/myfile myfile 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00 sftp> ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 rmetrich rmetrich 0 Dec 15 09:50 myfile -
When uploading files using SFTP and preserving permissions, permissions are always set to source file's permissions and I want 664 instead
$ sftp mysftpserver sftp> !ls -l myfile -rw-r--r--. 1 rmetrich rmetrich 0 Dec 15 09:49 myfile sftp> put -p myfile Uploading myfile to /root/myfile myfile 100% 0 0.0KB/s 00:00 sftp> ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 rmetrich rmetrich 0 Dec 15 09:50 myfile
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- sftp
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