Re: Does the filesystem alter file permissions?

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On Oct 10, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm getting very weird results when creating new files on ext4 
> filesystems (this is on a CentOS 7 system).  The permissions are not 
> what they should be.
> 
> On the / filesystem, as superuser:
> 
> [root@server ~]# umask
> 0000
> [root@server ~]# touch a
> [root@server ~]# ls -l a
> -r--r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 10 11:45 a
> 
> As a normal user:
> 
> [stern@server ~]$ umask
> 0000
> [stern@server ~]$ touch b
> [stern@server ~]$ ls -l b
> -rw------- 1 stern stern 0 Oct 10 11:47 b

Do you have a default ACL set on the filesystem?  Try "getfacl".

Cheers, Andreas

> In /boot (which is a separate ext4 filesystem):
> 
> [root@server boot]# umask
> 0000
> [root@server boot]# touch a
> [root@server boot]# ls -l a
> -r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 Oct 10 15:30 a
> 
> On a tmpfs filesystem, the permissions are -rw-rw-rw-, as expected.
> 
> What causes this sort of thing, and how can I change it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
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Cheers, Andreas





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