chmod patch

[Martin Pool]

On  5 Apr 2002, Diburim <diburim at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >   If sending files, modify the mode before transmission.
> I don't think it possible in windows environment (cygwin)
> I'm backup lot of  windows labtops and I want the user data to be
> some how secure on the server.  The status now is that the files are world
> readable :-(

That's an argument for having --chmod, isn't it?  It's a way to get
the windows machines to send a mode of 0600 even though that's not
present on their local disks.

-- 
Martin