Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:25:15 +0200 From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> To: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: umask Message-ID: <200308142025.18512.ajacoutot@lphp.org> In-Reply-To: <20030814181947.GC8728@webserver> References: <200308141542.40587.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <20030814181947.GC8728@webserver>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 August 2003 20:19, Joshua Oreman wrote: > 066 will be *more* secure than 022. I know that :) > This is because a umask is deducted from the default permission bits of 6= 66 > (or 777 for executables) on new files. So a umask of 022 will cause new > files to have a mode of 600 or 711. Yes I know, I was just wondering why the default behaviour was not very=20 secure. > * 077 (600 or 700 -- most secure) So, if I set umask to 077, this is OK, right ? Is there ANY cons ? Thanks a lot for your answer Joshua. Antoine =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/O9QOY3Hnhkr+5cQRAnI6AJ4r4/ChIy/cDAqv2ZHrBCnDu2HotACeK5jx CBnqmfxoTPvdT4rZIUs8s0U=3D =3Dsw1f =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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