Bug 3070

Summary:	Using recursive put always copies permissions
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Marijn Meijles <marijn>
Component:	sftp	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	djm
Priority:	P5
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Marijn Meijles 2019-09-12 18:24:11 AEST

The -p option of the sftp put command is supposed to copy timestamps and permissions, thereby implying that they are not copied when you leave out the -p option.

This is only partly the case when you use the recursive option. When using -r, permissions are always copied, regardless of the -p option.

Patch is located at https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/openssh/openssh-portable/pull/145.patch

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2020-08-07 14:30:51 AEST

I think that's a bit of an overbroad hammer - IMO users generally want some permissions to be preserved, e.g. X bits.

Unfortunately, the sftp protocol doesn't have notions of umask or changing only a subset of permission bits - either the client specifies all of them or none of them.