openssh bugs - Sep 2019 - [Bug 3070] New: Using recursive put always copies permissions

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3070

            Bug ID: 3070
           Summary: Using recursive put always copies permissions
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: -current
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: sftp
          Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
          Reporter: marijn at bitpit.net

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

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3070

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
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.

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