On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Aaron Couts wrote:

> My SFTP server logs show that curl is attempting to change the permissions
> on the file:

Weird.

> My SFTP server is ProFTPD 1.3.3g with mod_sftp. I've tested this issue with
> curl 7.43.0 and 7.19.7.

This is really an issue with libssh2 which is doing all the raw SFTP stuff.
Which version of libssh2 are you using?

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