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No effect of umask and chmod on mounted drives
The windows drives are mounted at boot-time using pysdm. The setting were
nls=iso8859-1,users,umask=002,sync,user,dirsync,uid=mtk
When I try to change the permission of files using chmod, I don't ...
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Why is the default umask value for useradd in openSuSE set to 022?
I recently built a very simple test environment with oepnSuSE.
As I tried to configure a shared directory, wihtout using ACLs, but with SetGID on that directory instead for some reason, I noticed ...
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How to set umask for a system-user?
Is it possible to set the umask for a system-user (created with useradd --system username)?
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Why are directories created with permissions 2070 and files with 060 in a directory with setgid bit?
I have the following directory:
$ ll -d neptune
drwxrws---+ 5 beamin psych 4096 Mar 7 16:18 neptune
$ getfacl neptune
# file: neptune
# owner: beamin
# group: psych
# flags: -s-
user::rwx
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Permissions UMASK for New Directories
I have a directory "dir1" who's owner is "owner1" and it has 775 permissions.
Another user in the same group as "owner1" is called "owner2"
Whenever a file is written to "dir1" by "owner2" I need ...
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Using umask to set group permissions
A long time ago an old friend showed me a way to use an octal or hex umask with a group I think using /etc/profile. I'm not sure.
I'm trying to create group on Debian so that every member of that ...
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AIX ftpd - how to set umask for a given user?
I know how can I change the umask settings for all the users using ftpd, but how can I change the umask for a given user using FTPD?
AIX/6100-05-02-1034
FTP server (Version 4.2)
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On AIX 6100-05-02-1034 how can I create custom umask for a specific directory?
On AIX 6100-05-02-1034 how can I create custom umask for a specific directory?
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How can I have a separate umask for directory or user?
I want a separate umask for a directory or a user. How can I do this?
Edit:
I am using Debian 6.
The reason why I want to do this is, I want all my SFTP users to create files with write on group. ...
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How to make scp respect umask
My scp doesn't respect umask setting of the user it's sending files to. Is there a setting somewhere or should I use a different solution?
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Why are files in my home dir being created as world-writable despite a more-restrictive umask?
I've realized that the permissions for new files and directories behave a bit strangely. First of all, umask seems to return the right answer:
$ umask
0002
This means full access for my user and ...
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How to have correct permissions of files from usb disks?
does anyone have the following problem?
I have an ubuntu box at work and also one at home.
I always copy folders/files to/from an usb disk to/from my boxes.
I have to change permissions of ...
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Downsides of umask 077?
What are the cons, for having a restrictive umask of 077? A lot of distros (I believe all, except Red Hat? ) have a default umask of 022, configured in /etc/profile. This seems way too insecure for a ...
