[CentOS] Wrong file permissions in CentOS 7

Fri Oct 10 17:37:40 UTC 2014
Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014, Hal Wigoda wrote:

> Change the umask in the .bash_profile for root.

Since the umask is already set to 0000, I don't see how changing it 
will make any difference.

Besides, I _did_ change it by hand, just before the start of the 
example.

And lastly, changing root's bash_profile won't make any difference to 
normal users.

Alan Stern

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > Sorry if this question has been asked many times before.
> >
> > On a new CentOS 7 system, when I create files they end up with strange
> > permissions.  For example, as root:
> >
> > [root at server ~]# umask
> > 0000
> > [root at server ~]# touch a
> > [root at server ~]# ls -l a
> > -r--r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 10 11:45 a
> >
> > As a regular user:
> >
> > [stern at server ~]$ umask
> > 0000
> > [stern at server ~]$ touch b
> > [stern at server ~]$ ls -l b
> > -rw------- 1 stern stern 0 Oct 10 11:47 b
> >
> > In both cases the permsissions should have been -rw-rw-rw-.  What on
> > earth is going on, and how can I fix it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alan Stern
> >
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