chmod sftp command and setgid/setuid bit

[Chris Rapier]

Can I ask which, if any, RFC you do follow for SFTP? I'm doing some work 
in SFTP and this would be good for me to know. Any documentation on the 
protocol implementation would be supremely useful.

Chris


Damien Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Peter Stuge wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:30:21AM +0200, Eric Noulard wrote:
>>> As far as I understand sftp-server.c code is seems that
>>>
>>> chmod(name, a->perm & 0777);
>>>
>>> is responsible for this behavior.
>>>
>>> Could you tell me if not handling setuid/setgid bits on sftp-server
>>> is done on purpose?
>>> Is it a feature or should it be considered a bug?
>> Seems like a bug..
>>
>> --8<-- draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-12.txt 7.6. Permissions
> 
> We do not implement filexfer-12, we stopped chasing newer filexfer drafts
> when the authors started loading NFS-like features into the protocol.
> 
> The reason for the mask is probably simple paranoia, and it could probably
> be relaxed. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/
> 
> -d
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