sftp umask

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zoushenliang

Is it possible to add settings for sftp umask, or to use server system settings instead
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Zenju

AFAIK it's SFTP-server-dependent whether a umask will be applied. In any case, FFS sets the following values, which are currently hard-coded:
rw- r-- r-- [0644] default permissions for newly created files
rwx r-x r-x [0755] default permissions for newly created folders
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zoushenliang

Before version 10.19, the server's umask settings were valid, but starting with version 10.20, the server's umask settings are invalid.
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zoushenliang

I need group members to have permission to write. The server tried various ways to set the default umask, such as alternate-sftp -u 002, pam_umask.so umask=002, and modify the umask of login.defs to 002. Also I'm using the latest ubuntu server