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From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>
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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
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