rsync - Oct 2008 - Changing windows file permsissions

I am using rsync to download a file from a vendor's server.  I believe the
vendor site is a unix server but not 100% sure on that.  The file is being
downloaded on windows 2003 R2 server.

Here is an example of the command line being used:

C:\Downloads\rsync\rsync.exe -i
--password-file=C:\Backend\rsync\password.txt -av
ssclient@vendor.site.net::scores/filename /Backend/VendorFiles/



When the download completes the downloaded file is read only and permissions
are set so that the service account that needs that file has deny read
access.

I can run the exact same command line from my development box which is a
Windows 2003 server and there are no problems accessing or reading the
files.

I'm stumped!  Anyone have any ideas as to why the file permissions would be
changing?  Any ideas on how to make it not change permissions?

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 11:41 -0700, Dean Erling wrote:
> C:\Downloads\rsync\rsync.exe -i
> --password-file=C:\Backend\rsync\password.txt -av
> ssclient@vendor.site.net::scores/filename /Backend/VendorFiles/
> 
> When the download completes the downloaded file is read only and
permissions
> are set so that the service account that needs that file has deny read
> access.
> I'm stumped!  Anyone have any ideas as to why the file permissions
would be
> changing?  Any ideas on how to make it not change permissions?
You are passing -a, which includes -p, which tells rsync to preserve
permissions.  You can override this by passing --no-p to the right of -a
on the command line.  You may additionally need --chmod=ugo=rwX to allow
permissions to increase from source to destination.

IMO, too many of the rsync examples in the man page and on the Internet
promote -a as a one-size-fits-all option.  I use the "adopt destination
permissions and ownership but preserve everything else" combination,
-rltE --chmod=ugo=rwX, much more often; I think it should be similarly
promoted.

Matt