Default rights of user

[Fred Morin_1]

I have a user on group USER, when he created a file, the default rights of this file is
rw-rw-r--,

Is it possible to change the default to rwxrwxrwx, when the user created a new file?

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Frederic,

No, sorry it's not.
The default umask gives you the 664, but UNIX (ANY UNIX) will not allow you to assign execute perms to any file upon creation - dirs yes - files no. Not even root can override that.
You'd have to come in with a script (cron?) & reset the perms after creation.

This is more or less a security feature & a legacy action that "files" are not executable & shouldn't be so unless direct action is taken to set them so.

Just think what a hacker could do with this "feature".

My 2 cents,
Jeff