Re: [sshfs] bug in sshfs 2.0: sticky bit not honored

[Norman R. <nr...@ee...>]

 > On Tue,  9 Sep 2008,   wrote:
 > > I've just moved to a shop with a real lock-it-down attitude, and NFS
 > > mounts are not permitted.  So I'm thrilled to have sshfs. Unfortunately I
 > > am having a problem with sticky bits on directory permissions: the remote
 > > filesystem has a group sticky bit set, and not only does this not carry
 > > over, but I can't even set the group sticky bit on the local side:
 > > 
 > > : nr@labrador 1665 ; chmod g+s .
 > > : nr@labrador 1666 ; ls -ld .
 > > drwxrwxr-x 1 nr ta40 4096 Sep  8 17:33 .
 > > 
 > > Any suggestions of a workaround would be helpful.
 > 
 > I think this is a limitatation in sftp-server, that has already been
 > fixed in some recent openssh version.  What's your ssh server version?

My sysadmins have chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which appears to
have this version:

  openssh-server.x86_64                    4.3p2-26.el5_2.1 installed       

What version would be needed to get the fix in sftp-server?


Norman