Re: SFTP and permissions

It's very difficult to diagnose an already fixed issue. Narcis Garcia __________ I'm using this dedicated address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 2/2/21 a les 2:10, Tedd Sperling ha escrit: > > Hi Gang: > > Considering there are current conversations on this list with regard to SFTP and permissions, I > thought I might ask a different question and see if some of you Server Gurus can answer it. > > Here’s the background: > > As some of you know, I teach php at a local college where my students have school server > accounts so they can upload and run their php scripts. The connection we have is SFTP. > > Everything was fine — the student and I could upload and run our scripts. > > Then one day every file we uploaded was given 664 permissions. We had to manually change the > permissions to 644 to get the scripts to run. > > I asked the IT guys at school what gives? Surprisedly, they had no explanation as to why the > schools server stopped assigning 664 and started using 664 instead? They added it should have never > happened. Oddly enough, they fixed the problem without not knowing how the problem came about. > > So, does anyone have an idea as to what happened? > > Many thanks in advance for any explanation. > > Cheers, > > Tedd > > Tedd Sperling > tedd@sperling.com > > >