Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: umask and permissions

[Harald Meland]

[Matthieu Moy]

> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> See "Using shared SFTP archives set g+ws without patching SSH"
>
> I don't see how this is supposed to work.
>
> g+ws will force the created subdirectories to belong to the specified
> group, but it won't give it the +w bit.

With the proper umask, as detailed on the wiki, it will.

>> or "Using multiple accounts, a group, and a sftpd-wrapper without
>> changing global configuration"
>
> I suppose the sftpd-wrapper requires to be root, which is not allways
> possible.

Again, a proper umask will do the trick; no need to run the
sftpd-wrapper as root.
-- 
Harald