scp not tolerant of extraneous shell messages

[Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com]

I spoke of sub-systems generally - sftp may or may not care
about umask settings - other sub-systems might in fact care.

Nico
-- 

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> umask can and is ignored by some sftp clients.  Mainly ones that are
> windows based.  Mainly SSH Corp derived last I checked (a year ago).
> 
> So you are trusting that the software on the other side 
> honors umask which
> is a false thing to do since some sftp clients propogate their beliefs
> (real or fictional) of what the permissions should be.
> 
> - Ben
> 
> 

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