crazy file permission question

[Barry Brimer]

> Ok, so due to reasons that are kind of annoying, but none the less
> legitimate enough for me to post the question, I have a redhat server
> here in which all newly created files need to have the file permissions
> rwxr-xr-x  (755).  These files are created when the clients sftp them to
> the their specific directories.
> The problem of course is set umask subtracts from the default mask and
> the default umask for text files is 666 not 777.  Unfortunately I need
> ALL files to be 755, so the question is, how can I change the default
> mask to be 777 for all files so set umask works?

I don't remember if this affects scp, sftp, or both.  Try creating a 
".profile" with a umask statement in it.  See if that helps.

Barry