Additional Options: define posixPermissions for folders and files

Current Situation

• When creating a destination directory using the make_dirs option e.g. with FTP operation send then the directory is created, but without an executable permission bit set for group and other.
• It is not possible to cd into a newly created directory as the executable bit is not set.

Desired Behavior

• In order to be able to cd into the directory the executable bit must be set.
• This feature should be available for FTP and SFTP.

Proposed Changes

• In the "src\java\sos\net\ SOSShttp://FTP.java" module, the code is setting the 484 decimal permissions. Converting to octal gives 0744 (rwxr-r-).
• What is required is the "x" bit for group and other, or alternatively, allow the "umask" setting for the operating account to set the proper default permissions when creating a directory.

  public boolean mkdir(String pathname) throws IOException {
              pathname = resolvePathname(pathname);
              try{
                    sftpClient.mkdir(pathname, 484);
              } catch(Exception e){
                    reply = e.toString();
                    return false;
              }
              reply = "mkdir OK";
              return true;
        }
  

Maintainer Notes

• This feature is not intended for immediate implementation*
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