Questions tagged [umask]
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git: how can i config git to ignore file permissions changes
I have some git projects in a linux server.
i use Mac and linux to do my programming.
the problem is that the mac filesystem's permissions doesn't really work well like in linux so all the files ...
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How does local_umask and file_open_mode work?
I had some problems with the filepermissions when local users uploaded their files via vsftp to a server.
I wanted the files to have all 766 permissions. After a lot of trial and error I found out ...
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How to set default permissions for files moved or copied to a directory?
My question is similar to How to set the default file permissions on ALL newly created files in linux - but differs in important ways:
I want all files created in (or copied to or moved to) a certain ...
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Can I set the umask on a specific directory?
I have a fairly restrictive umask setting (0077). This is fine, except I have one directory in which I'd like a more permissive setting (0002) to all files created anywhere under that directory. Is ...
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How to set umask globally?
I am using a private user group setup, i.e. a user foo's home directory is owned by foo:foo, not foo:users.
For this to work, I need to set the umask to 002 globally.
After a quick grep -RIi umask /...
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How to set system and user-wide umask in OS X Yosemite?
In previous OS X versions we used launchd-user.conf and launchd.conf to set umask values for our client workstations. This does not appear to work in OSX Yosemite.
How to set system and user-wide ...
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How to set umask for a folder and it's subfolder?
I'm working on the same directory with some friends and they access it via SSH.
I added us in the same group and defined a sticky bit to keep the user:group values the same.
But when a user create a ...
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How do you apply umask settings to an account that doesn't log in?
On my Ubuntu 11.04x64 server, I have service accounts running which do not log in and do not have home directories. These service accounts are responsible for running processes which are invoked as ...
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Why does umask use this complicated numeric system?
I am trying to learn how to use umask but it seems so complicated.
Besides all the subtractions that I have to make in my head seperately for directories and files every time I see a mask value, the ...
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VirtualBox Guest Shared Folder Ignoring umask
I have a folder on my host system (Arch Linux) which is being shared with an Ubuntu VirtualBox guest. Instead of using automount, I am mounting the folder at boot using the following line in my guest'...
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666 permission even after making umask= 0000
I made my umask = 0000. However when I am creating a file it has 666 permission. Although directories get 777 , that's alright.
Also my aim is to create file/dir with permissions 774, I guess umask ...
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Change default umask for KDE
I am attempting to change the default permissions assigned to a file by KDE. I would like to change the umask to 0027 so that the files are created with 750 for the permissions by default instead of ...
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Show umask of user I can't login to
I know I can show the umask of the current user by simly executing umask on the command line.
Is there any way how I can figure out the umask of a user I don't have the permissions to login to? (Also ...
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How to set the default umask in Arch Linux
How can I set the default umask for Arch Linux. I need 0022 but the default is 0027 on my system. I checked etc/profile/ and it says
umask 0022
But somewhere another value for umask gets set and I ...
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Where does Debian take the default umask from?
With a fresh ssh login:
$ umask
0007
But:
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' -type f | xargs grep 007 | less
$
# grep 007 /etc/profile
#
# grep -i umask /etc/login.defs
# UMASK ...
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