[Bug 1922130] [NEW] Request addition of Fedora / Redhat "sftp-force-permissions" patch

[Mark Gallagher]

Public bug reported:

Fedora / Redhat ships openssh with a patch which adds "-m force
permission" flag to sftp-server.

This is quite a common feature request / support request on the various
stackexchange sites - https://superuser.com/questions/332284/in-sftp-
how-to-set-the-default-permission-for-all-files-in-a-folder

You will see that someone has answered "add -m" there which is indeed
the simplest answer by a distance but unfortunately it's a non standard
patch:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssh/blob/f34/f/openssh-6.7p1
-sftp-force-permission.patch

This I think should supersede #563216 because they have been shipping
this in production presumably since at least 2015 (I see it in fedora 22
branch), so it is a known stable patch compared to the one suggested
there.

** Affects: openssh (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Request addition of Fedora / Redhat "sftp-force-permissions" patch

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Fedora / Redhat ships openssh with a patch which adds "-m force
  permission" flag to sftp-server.

  This is quite a common feature request / support request on the
  various stackexchange sites - https://superuser.com/questions/332284
  /in-sftp-how-to-set-the-default-permission-for-all-files-in-a-folder

  You will see that someone has answered "add -m" there which is indeed
  the simplest answer by a distance but unfortunately it's a non
  standard patch:

  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssh/blob/f34/f/openssh-6.7p1
  -sftp-force-permission.patch

  This I think should supersede #563216 because they have been shipping
  this in production presumably since at least 2015 (I see it in fedora
  22 branch), so it is a known stable patch compared to the one
  suggested there.

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