set default file permissions for a directory

[Numberwhun]

I have to agree with Jason on both counts.  I use scp on the Unix system 
at work and when you ar specifying where you want to transfer to you 
need to spefify the following:

    user@<ip or machine name>:/directory/on/other/machine

If you don't put the users it will default to using the user you are on 
the local machine but will ask you for the password.  If you don't 
transfer certain files as the correct user, then permissions are not 
correctly set.  I would say the .profile(s) are read and used.

Regards,

Jeff



Jason Stephenson wrote:

> In your first post, you said that you can set the umask to 002. Have 
> you tried that?
>
> I'm pretty sure that even using scp actually "logs in" the user enough 
> so that the shell environment is set up and things like the umask set 
> in .profile or whatever for their shell is sourced and does work. At 
> least it does seem to in my experience.
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