topic Re: Setting umask for incoming sftp users in Operating System - Linux

Setting umask for incoming sftp users

MikeL_4 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:21:25 GMT

We have users that send files to our server via sftp... We normallyhave umask set to 022 but for these files we would like to force a umask of 002...

I've tried to change in the .bash_profile but does not seem to make any difference...

Is there a way to change this???

We are running Red Hat Version 5 on this server..

Re: Setting umask for incoming sftp users

MikeL_4 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:13:29 GMT

Found the resolution:

What I found is that according to the bash man page, .bash_profile is executed for login shells, while .bashrc is executed for interactive non-login shells.

[ftpuser=>]$ cat ./.bashrc
# .bashrc

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi

# User specific aliases and functions

umask 0002

#EOF

Re: Setting umask for incoming sftp users

skt_skt — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:44:35 GMT

looks similar to ~home/.netrc file on HP-UX .