On Monday, March 14, 2011 11:00:10 PM Chris Smart wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin <gdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > so I ended up with umask 003 > > Just to make sure you want it, this means everyone can read everyone > else's data. > > It's equal to 774. > > -c the default is 022 with what you have set directories will not be accesable to people uing the other permissions on a default setup home dirs are created with 700 so only the user can enter and all the files inside are not accesable by anyone. with user groups even if the directory is group readable and writeable no one will be able to access it but the user. im assuming that you have some users sharing a group and want them to share data. your probably best going for a umask of 002 unless you really want to make sure that other cant access anything in which id use 007 anyway it a bit hard to say how best to do it without any context. Dennis
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