On Feb 5, 2004, at 7:50 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > > Sounds like a simple WinSCP bug. Their site isn't responding right now > so I can't tell if it's a known bug. Actually, I guess "bug" is too > strong since I've never seen a claim that WinSCP pays any attention to > umask in the documentation. Call it a misfeature. Responding to my own post. I found a site which claims that WinSCP has it's own mechanism for changing file properties on the target machine. I'm going to guess that it's doing a chmod on the files after creating them. I'd investigate the WinSCP docs.