[CentOS] Wrong file permissions in CentOS 7
Hal Wigoda
hal.wigoda at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 17:32:23 UTC 2014
Change the umask in the .bash_profile for root.
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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