On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 15:45 -0400, Vallon, Justin wrote: > It seems that even if -p (or -a, etc) are not used, permissions are > still propagated from client to server, though not updated. Correct. This is a historical behavior inherited from cp that is hardly ever what you want. See the man page description of -p for details and how to avoid it. -- Matt