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Why does the umask not change as expected in Ubuntu 24.04?
When I create a directory or a file in my website directory (/var/www) with sFTP on Ubuntu 24.04 the chmod is 775 for directories and 664 for files.
I would like the permissions to be 755 and 644.
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ssh-keygen creates private key with incorrect permissions
When using ssh-keygen without any arguments to generate my ssh keys, it generates both the public and private keys with 644 permissions, making the private key too open to be used. I am running Ubuntu ...
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if my umask is 0002 then why does `mkdir dirname` create directories with drwxrwxr-x permission?
If my umask is 0002 then why does mkdir dirname create a directory with drwxrwxr-x permission? I should think that it would create it with d-------w- permission.
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SVN export yields different file permissions on 2 systems with same umask
I have a machine with Ubuntu 10.10 and a machine with Ubuntu 11.10.
When I do a svn export on the 10.10 machine, this gives all directories a 755 permission. The 11.10 machine sets the directories to ...
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