Questions tagged [umask]
Mask that controls which file permissions are set for files and directories when they are created. It also refers to a function that sets the mask, and to the mask itself, which is formally known as the file mode creation mask.
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Could not override the umask value for AWS Session Manager ssm-user
Currently when I connect to an EC2 instance through SSM from AWS console it connects with default user : ssm-user. The umask value for this user is 022. I am trying to update the default umask value ...
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Linux umask difference between root and non-root user
My system is :
# uname -a
Linux Ubuntu 6.2.0-26-generic #26~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jul 13 16:27:29 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
When I sudo to root :
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What determines UMASK for Oracle Job using UTL_FILE?
A PL/SQL job foobar622 writes files to UNIX/LINUX server using the following Oracle file I/O commands:
UTL_FILE.FILE_OPEN
UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE
UTL_FILE.FILE_CLOSE
In the past the files had these ...
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Converting server to allow Apache write access to certain directories, does this solution look right?
I've been at this all day and think I finally figured it out, but want to make sure before I put it into production.
I'm changing my server to allow the apache:apache user write permission on a few ...
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Umask set weird result for files when apply value 0666
umask shows the weird results when applying value: 0666
When apply any value for umask that works as aspected, but when apply 0666 then directory got correct permission value but file got weird value.
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How to change the (u)mask in Linux to get a certain permission for a file? [duplicate]
What value of (u)mask should I use to give the permission -rwxr-xr-- for the files?
I tried 012 and 022 and didn't work, how do I subtract 666-754?
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Force certain file permissions on files uploaded to SFTP server
I have the openssh sftp server set up to force sftp for users in the sftp group. Additionally, they are chrooted into the /srv/users/%u directory. This works fine, and users can access the directory, ...
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Creating a shared directory with default group and default permissions
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I want to create a shared directory, where users of a specific group can copy files to. If they do, the files should belong to and be readable by all other members of the same group. Others ...
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umask value and 'multisession' programs
The tricky thing on DACs is getting the permissions right (and Posix ACLs help somewhat). In a mixed Windows/Linux network is even trickier. The 'traditional' way of doing things is using umask
So, ...
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cp overrides my default permissions settings, when copying files with: cp -r --no-preserve=all
My default umask is 077. When I create a directory, it has permissions 700:
mkdir AA
$ stat -c'%A %n' AA/
drwx------ AA/
now I want to set default permissions recursively to 750:
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How to set file permission to 777 using umask [duplicate]
It is true that i may not have understood how umask calculations work.
This query is just for a test case (my learning).
My intention is that my process should generate a file pdf file1.pdf with full ...
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modify umask of a running process
I have a program, which can be used by a group and thus the output should have group writing permission by default, thus umask 002. Of course each user could do (umask 002 && cmd).
But since ...
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umask for new subdirectories
I am running transmission-remote and want all new torrent downloads to be created with g+w permissions.
The transmission Downloads directory is symlinked to a Downloads directory on a second drive
as ...
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Does Samba ignore ACLs and umask?
I have an ACL on /media/drv:
sudo setfacl -dRm u::rwx,g::rwx,o::r-x /media/drv
Likewise I set the special directory group id bit on /media/drv like this:
sudo chmod g+s /media/drv
When I make a ...
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Linux Bible 10th Edition: are permissions calculated right with umask?
I read "Linux Bible 10th Edition", chapter 4: Becoming a Linux Power User, at 109 page. Second paragraph:
$ umask
0002
If you ignore the leading zero for the moment, the umask value masks ...
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LPIC 101-500 exam - umask
Today I took LPIC 101-500 exam and I passed but one question keeps bothering me. The question was:
Given the following permissions -rw-r----- what umask should be applied to make all files have the ...
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Can "umask" variable include a number greater than "7"?
I understand we use "umask" for setting different security levels:
umask value
Security level
Effective permission (directory)
022
Permissive
755
026
Moderate
751
027
Moderate
750
077
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How to force set (not subtract) permissions to future files?
I have a program on Ubuntu Linux that creates a logs/error.log file with a permissions 660 (rw-rw----) or 640 (rw-r-----). But I want the file permissions always to be 666 (rw-rw-rw-) (including when ...
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File Permissions keep changing back
We have a cent os7 server that recently had a new user added. It seems that during this process permissions were wrongly updated. After I have fixed the permissions to suit the site required ...
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unix domain socket permissions and umask integration between root and non root users
I'm trying to understand the permissions of a unix domain socket, when using an existing file, umask changes are required as well as the dir permissions.
If I create a world readable dir as root and ...
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Allow user to run nonpermissive commands in shell script (KSH)
I have a ksh script I am developing for work. (I am on the newer side to shell-scripting)
I have root access but the future-users of this script will not. Say the other user is named User1.
Within the ...
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Why do I get umask 022 as default in my main user instead of the 0002 one?
I'm using Fedora 34 (Workstation Edition) —although I've seen this same behaviour on a Debian Buster machine, and I'm trying to understand why the users that I am creating are getting the umask 0002 ...
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ACLs are not respected on FreeBSD
I am trying to set default group permission for the folder on FreeBSD 13.0
$mkdir test
$setfacl -d -m u::rwx,g::rwx,o::rx,mask::rwx test
$getfacl -d test
# file: test
# owner: john
# group: wheel
user:...
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How do I find the umask value for a given system user?
I would like to find the umask value for a particular system user, the one that is applied when a script running as this user creates a new directory. I'm using both Ubuntu 16.04 and 20.04 systems.
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NFS share umask
I am configuring an nfs share and my /etc/exports looks something like this:
/nfs_anon 192.168.122.0/24(rw,all_squash,anonuid=1111,anongid=1111)
Is there a way to force clients to use default ...
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Using umask vs. setgid: best practice for peacefully sharing a directory in a Linux users group?
What is the best way to share a directory between multiple Linux users?
Say I have a directory at /foo (a regular directory no NFS or else) and a bunch of users added to the group bar.
What I want is ...
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The parameters a new process inherits
It appears that a new Linux process inherits its parent's
present working directory,
umask,
process group (getpgid) and
process session (getsid).
Also, the parent's PID becomes the new process's ...
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Umask: group permissions effect on files and directories
If I changed my "umask", so that group members had all permissions.
What would be the effect when creating new files and directories?
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Displaying umask in symbolic and octal form, at the same time?
I'm trying to display the umask in both octal and symbolic at the same time. The command I'm using is umask -S -O, but it doesn't work. I would appreciate any help.
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Set umask for a user
How do I make umask output be 22 instead of 0022?
Server1:
user@vxs-app01> umask
22
Server2
user@vxs-app02> umask
0022
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ACL default::mask not being used for new file
I have a directory with the following ACL rules setup:
cd /nobackupp13/jrwrigh7
getfacl .
I get
# file: .
# owner: jrwrigh7
# group: a1983
user::rwx
group::r-x
group:a1983:r-x
mask::r-x
other::---
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Default acl not yielding the permissions i want in a shared directory
I am trying to share a directory between 2 users. Both users should always have rw permissions on all existing and newly created files and subdirectories under a given path.
I added both users to the ...
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Incorrect permissions assigned to file when created from Windows computer
I have a Linux server with a NFS share. User1 and Group1 have rwx permissions to the folder. When I create a file on the Linux host as user1, it has the correct permissions. On the Windows machine, ...
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Set default permission for user using copy (using winscp) in Centos 7
I did set umask 001 for user (ex: desmon) in /home/desmon/.bashrc
When desmond create a file then permission is -rw-rw-rw-
But when desmon use scp command to copy file then permission is -rwxr-x r--
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What does the letter 'u' mean in umask?
Is it "user mask" or something?
Wikipedia does not have details, but says the feature has been in Unix since 1978.
POSIX just says it is the "file mode creation mask".
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File permissions while sending the file from one Linux host to another host
One of the source servers is sending the files to destination servers using lftp. The umask setting in the destination host is 007(in proftpd.conf file), so the files landing in the destination ...
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How to have files extracted from archive inherit permission from parent folder
I'm using a Centos 8 Linux with multiple user belonging to the same group accessing a number ff folder/subfolder and files in the same FS (xfs). I want all files and folders have write permission for ...
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pam_umask.so doesn't work
I try to configure pam.d on a centos 8.
I wanted to configure system wide umask to 0077 in /etc/pam.d/postlogin.
postlogin is included by several services under /etc/pam.d e.g. su, su-l
My postlogin ...
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What's the point of setting individual file permissions if no one can access/view your directory anyway?
Scenario:
I have a file inside my ~ directory called file.txt.
My ~ directory has it's permissions set to 700.
My file has permissions set to 664.
The problem is, no one can even access it because ...
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home permissins are still too generous
i guess i'm still missing something, but after some time of researching (without any clear statements), i have to consult the experts:
i'm using Linux Mint MATE (Ubuntu based) and know, therefore a ...
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mount with umask does not works
I tried to run
mount /home/user/nvme0n1 -U 8da513ec-20ce-4a2d-863d-978b60089ad3 -t ext4 -o umask=0000
and the response is:
mount: /home/user/nvme0n1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
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Why is execute permission denied for bin file I created?
I've made a Makefile to simplify my life, and this Makefile calls a script in a bin file I've created. After running my command make something, I got following error :
/bin/sh: 1: .docker/bin/echo-...
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Controlling file mode of created target directory possible for rsync?
I'm looking to control the file mode bits of the directory-to-be-created in the rsync command below:
rsync -a ... <remote-user>@<remote-host>:/some/existing/path/directory-to-be-created/
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Set specific umask for .Trash-* folder
We are working on CentOS and our data servers are running FreeNAS.
We have a few shared projects automounted in /shared_projects folder.
Each times a user delete a file in those shared projects, it ...
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Correct umask value to automate the creation of file with the SSH private key content
I'm trying to find a way to shorten these lines (CI_PRIVATE_SSH_KEY is already set):
mkdir -p "${HOME}/.ssh/"
chmod 700 "${HOME}/.ssh/"
echo "${CI_PRIVATE_SSH_KEY}" > "${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa"
chmod ...
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Set default permissions for new files and folders
I have an upload directory which has information fed into it by users, each time a user registers they submit a picture which creates a folder for them in the upload directory and stores their photo(s)...
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umask doesn't work with nohup
It seems that umask and nohup don't work correctly together.
I did this:
$ umask 022
$ nohup java -jar blah.jar &
[1] 12345
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'
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What are the directories and configuration files used to set the umask by the superuser in Solaris UNIX?
One file I can think of is the .profile file in the user's home directory. However what are the absolute paths (directories and file names) that are used to set the UMASK level at the operating ...
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Why choose a umask of 002 over 022?
I was cleaning up groups and permissions on my home system today, and re-familiarized myself with umasks. It seems that the default on my system (Ubuntu 18.10) is 002, but that for root it's 0022.
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Set File Permissions to Default from Umask
https://geek-university.com/linux/set-the-default-permissions-for-newly-created-files/
So I want my umask (command) which in this case is 0002 to be subtracted (bitwise) from 666 for files and 777 ...
