umask question

[Starrynight]

Hi all

Does anyone knows what should be my umask if I want my files created with -rw-rw---- permissions?
The umask man page is very confuse...

Thanks in advance

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

umask 006 works


Pete

[T G Manikandan]

#umask 006

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

The value for umask can be calculated as 777 -

You want 660 as permission, so you umask will be 117.

Since x-bits are normally not set when creating a file, the 'ones' can be ignored, so 006 should work to.

[John Carr_2]

you might want the latest patch for umask while your on the subject PHKL_26995

John.

[Starrynight]

Hi Pete

Thanks for your reply.
Do you know if it's possible to me to set this umask for ftp for a specific user in 10.20 version?
I mean I know I can change ftp umask for all user with ftpd -u but I only want to change it for a particular one...not sure if it is possible.

Thanks
SN

[Pete Randall]

SN,

I'm not sure on that one so I'll leave it to others.


Pete

[Bill Hassell]

10.20 is obsolete and the Washington University version wu-ftpd) was not supplied for that version of HP-UX. The ftp client on 10.20 (and other versions of HP-UX) allows the use of the chmod command. This requires the user to explicitly set the remote permissions as needed, but there is nothing in 10.20 that works for a specific user. If the user is on an HP-UX box, you could script an automated ftp transfer which performs the required chmod., but if the user is on a PC, you're out of luck (again) since the native ftp for DOS/Windows has no chmod command.