Umask

[Irene Jao]

I edited .profile of user01 to include umask 002.

All new directories created by user01 are now rwxrwxr-x

But all files are
rw-rw-r--

How do we make them also rwxrwxr-x

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,

with umask set to 000 directories will be created as rwxrwxrwx, files will be created as rw-rw-rw-. Nothing you can do about, files will never be create with execute privilege!

You will have to add a chmod command if execute privilege is required.

regards,
Thierry Poels.

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,
Directory permissions are 777 and files are 666.
Now since defualt umask is 022 :
Default file permissions become 644 and directory permissions become 755 and then it will change accordingly with the umask value you set.

For umask 002 Files (664) and directory (775)
and so on.

Hope that helps.
regards,
Regards,

[KapilRaj]

In the user's .profile add

alias mkdir=/home/script/mkdir.sh

Create /home/script/mkdir.sh as

mkdir $*
chmod 664 $*

Kaps

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

The user can change the files created under a directory with the commnad chmod:

chmod 775 file_name

or

chmod -R 775 dir_name

sks

[Irene Jao]

unfortunately the files are created through a program to different directories. we have no way of knowing when to do chmod since they are created at different times and in different directories.

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Files need +x permission if you want to execute them. Else for the purpose of read and write rw-rw-rw- with umask 000 should suffice.

If the need for x (execute) permission is still then a small script having chmod commands can be run periodically using cron.

sks

[Jeroen Peereboom · Accepted solution]

L.S.

Why do the files created by your program need the x-bit? Is the program generating other program-files, like shell scripts?

In stead of setting the x bit, you can also run the program by typing
sh filename

JP.