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Properly Setting Red Hat Daemon Umask
I've been trying to figure out the proper location to set daemon umasks in RedHat 5. All my searches lead to setting it in /etc/init.d/functions or /etc/sysconfig/init.
What are the pros/cons of ...
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Apache created files and its permissions for CentOS 6.x
In short, I have an authenticated HTTP-POST that:
posts a jpg image (created as 666 apache:www) into /directory1 (777 ftpuser:www)
creates /directory2 (created as 666 apache:www) in a 777 ...
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Why is umask setting a different permission for a directory and file I have created?
Consider:
[user@server1 ~]$ umask
0770
[user@server1 ~]$ mkdir TEST2; touch TEST2.txt;
[user@server1 ~]$ ls -l
d------rwx 2 user group_name 4096 Mar 5 05:16 TEST2
-------rw- 1 user group_name 0 ...
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How are default permissions determined (on OS X)?
My (limited) understanding of basic Unix is that any files that are created will be created based on the permissions of the creating user. In particular, the group assigned will be the creating user's ...
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How to display the permissions of a new file in the status line of the Vim editor?
With the following piece of code I get the permissions for an existing file:
augroup Get_file_perm
autocmd!
autocmd BufWinEnter,FileChangedShell * let w:file_perm=getfperm(expand('%:p'))
augroup ...
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umask is not working for directories
I have an odd problem with umask.
My current setting is:
$ umask
0022
$ umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx
This only works for files though and not directories:
$ touch abc
$ ll abc
0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 user1 ...
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Pre-defined umask under a given path [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to set default file permissions for all folders/files in a directory?
Say I have default umask, umask1. I would like all files/folders that I create/modify under a ...
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What is the proper solution to a web server trying to write to a directory?
So, I have a box with a "deploy" user. This deploy user owns a code repository and wordpress is running on this box...
When wordpress attempts to do something like upload a plugin, it is using the ...
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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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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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2answers
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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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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 ...
