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How to Set Specific Permissions On a Received File For File Transfer Job Windows to UNIX​

What?

In this article, we'll see how to set specific permissions on a received file for File Transfer job Windows to UNIX. A file transferred by SMAFT from Windows to UNIX usually gets 700 permissions once it is on the destination folder.

How?

It is possible to change this default value by editing the smaft_pps script located in the bin folder of the UNIX LSAM. On line 62 of the smaft_pps script in the agent's bin directory (by default /usr/local/lsam/bin), replace:

esac
RETVAL=$?
rm -f $FILE > /dev/null 2>&1
touch ../$FILE
fi

with:

esac
RETVAL=$?
rm -f $FILE > /dev/null 2>&1
chmod 0664 ../$FILE
touch ../$FILE
fi

At the line chmod 0664 ../$FILE you have to choose the rights for the destination, here in the example it is 644.

So every transferred files by SMAFT from a Windows machine to this Unix machine will get the permission set to 644.