Set Directory Permissions CHMOD with JSCH

Question

In Unix, how do I set the directory permissions with JSCH? I am looking to do drwxrwxrwx. Filezilla says the integer for that is 775 but JSCH is not setting the permission

Answer 1

The file permissions code in Unix (777, for example) are octal, not decimal. As in: when you do something like chmod -R 777, the digits are interpreted as octal input instead of decimal input.

This system comes from the fact that there are 3 permission groups:

• owner
• group
• world

and each group has an "on/off bit" for:

• read
• write
• execute

so octal-base is sufficient to represent all possible permission configurations for a group. The 3 octal-digits each correspond to a permission group.

(For further reading on this: http://www.december.com/unix/ref/chmod.html)

Back to your problem with JSCH: the decimal integer 775's octal representation is 0o1407, my suspicion is that the decimal 775 is actually sent instead of the octal 775, and FileZilla may very well be truncating the stuff to the left of the 3rd least significant digit of 0o1407 (because it's not unreasonable for it to assume there's nothing past the 3rd least significant bit)

Now, 509 is the decimal representation of octal 775, try using that with JSCH instead.