I have a fairly recent install of centos 6.5 and get: [root@critter etc]# grep -i "umask" * bashrc: # By default, we want umask to get set. This sets it for non-login shell. bashrc: umask 002 bashrc: umask 022 bashrc: umask 077 csh.cshrc: umask 002 csh.cshrc: umask 022 login.defs:UMASK 077 php.ini:; does not overwrite the process's umask. profile:# By default, we want umask to get set. This sets it for login shell profile: umask 002 profile: umask 022

Thanks. We're using bash here. And I became the user who complained and could not find another umask setting:

[user1@qa_host ~]$ grep -i "umask" * [user1@qa_host ~]$

On another related question... the user is also complaining about ownership of files and directories. Couldn't I just solve that problem with a sticky bit, i.e. chmod -R u+s * and chmod -R g+s *?

And as mentioned I have only one umask set in /etc/profile

[root@qa_hostapps]# grep umask /etc/profile umask 0002

Thanks

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:30 AM, zep zgreenfelder@gmail.com wrote:

On 06/11/2014 10:14 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote:

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Hey all,

We have the following set in /etc/profile :

umask 0002

so that it will affect all users. That should create all files as 664 and all directories as 775 if I'm not mistaken.

Well I logged into the machine after this was set and just created a file as one of the users who complained about permissions settings on files.

And

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this is what I saw:

[user1@qa_host ~]$ ls -l test_qa -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 domain^users 0 Jun 11 10:08 test_qa

I even tried logging out and logging in again just to be sure. I still

got

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the same result.

So my question is why would the file not have the permissions specified

by

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the umask command in /etc/profile ? I really need this to work for the users.

Any helps or clues would be great!

Thanks Tim

depending on your shell; are you sure you're referencing /etc/profile at all? e.g. are you using bash or bourne? the prompt looks pretty bash like, but assumptions and all. are you sure there's not another umask entry either in the user's homedir .file or in something like /etc/bashrc...

I have a fairly recent install of centos 6.5 and get: [root@critter etc]# grep -i "umask" * bashrc: # By default, we want umask to get set. This sets it for non-login shell. bashrc: umask 002 bashrc: umask 022 bashrc: umask 077 csh.cshrc: umask 002 csh.cshrc: umask 022 login.defs:UMASK 077 php.ini:; does not overwrite the process's umask. profile:# By default, we want umask to get set. This sets it for login shell profile: umask 002 profile: umask 022

and the php.ini warning is useful to keep in mind; you can't add back perms with umask, it can only take away. so if you start off with reference to /etc/profile that does umask 022, which then calls /etc/system-settings.profile that calls umask 077, then get to the users .bashrc file and try to do umask 002, you'll still be removing all perms for group and other, the last call won't change anything.

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On another related question... the user is also complaining about

ownership

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of files and directories. Couldn't I just solve that problem with a sticky bit, i.e. chmod -R u+s * and chmod -R g+s *?

possibly; although you can also screw things up pretty well if the user has done something like.. mkdir x; cd x ; ln -sf /etc ./et_cetera_config_files

Ok. Crap I hope not. I just did this. Should've waited for some advice. The sites are still up so I guess that's a good sign. Still I hope nothing too bad happened!

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And as mentioned I have only one umask set in /etc/profile

[root@qa_hostapps]# grep umask /etc/profile umask 0002

but /etc/profile isn't the only thing that bash calls/uses (at least not by default)

what do you get if you do a 'egrep umask /etc/*' ? and in the home dir, what do you get from egrep umask .??* ?

This is what I have.. although I think everything I see is already set the way that we want. Unless umask 002 doesn't correspond to umask 0002.

[root@uszmpwsld011 apps]# grep umask /etc/* /etc/bashrc: umask 002 /etc/bashrc: umask 002 /etc/csh.cshrc: umask 002 /etc/csh.cshrc: umask 022 /etc/csh.login:# Set umask consistently with bash for loginshells (csh.login sourced /etc/csh.login:# after csh.cshrc unlike with bash profile/bashrc scripts and umask /etc/csh.login: umask 002 /etc/csh.login: umask 022 /etc/ltrace.conf:octal umask(octal); /etc/ltrace.conf:octal SYS_umask(octal); /etc/php.ini:; does not overwrite the process's umask. /etc/php.ini.2.bak:; does not overwrite the process's umask. /etc/profile:umask 0002 /etc/xinetd.conf: umask = 002

And as I mentioned all users are using bash.

Thanks Tim

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:48 AM, zep zgreenfelder@gmail.com wrote:

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On another related question... the user is also complaining about

ownership

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of files and directories. Couldn't I just solve that problem with a sticky bit, i.e. chmod -R u+s * and chmod -R g+s *?

possibly; although you can also screw things up pretty well if the user has done something like.. mkdir x; cd x ; ln -sf /etc ./et_cetera_config_files

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And as mentioned I have only one umask set in /etc/profile

[root@qa_hostapps]# grep umask /etc/profile umask 0002

but /etc/profile isn't the only thing that bash calls/uses (at least not by default)

what do you get if you do a 'egrep umask /etc/*' ? and in the home dir, what do you get from egrep umask .??* ?

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