scp bug: newly created dirs do not inherit sgid bit

Petr Skovron xofon at pikomat.mff.cuni.cz
Fri Oct 14 10:10:04 EST 2005


On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:08:40PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:20:03PM +0200, Petr Skovron wrote:
> > 
> > I discovered that directories created by scp when recursive
> > copying into a sgid directory do not inherit the sgid bit. I believe
> > this is a bug. A patch to fix this is attached.
> 
> Does rcp do so?

     The version
/*      $OpenBSD: rcp.c,v 1.41 2005/03/31 18:39:21 deraadt Exp $        */
seems to behave the same, with the respective code around lines 677
(mkdir) and 689 (chmod).

> albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)

     Petr Sk




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