On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:03:25 -0800, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:
Chris,
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 08:45, Chris Carlen wrote:
Kevanf1 wrote:
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Change your global umask to 000 and see how secure your system is. Will Linux stop you?
Actually I think I meant 777. The umask is NANDed with octal 777 in order to determine the default permissions used to create files.
No, you had it right the first time. A umask of 0 is least secure, in that most newly created files end up with mode 666 (rw-rw-rw-) or 777 (rwxrwxrwx).
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Good day!
Randall Schulz
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Ah ha :-) I now have a basic grasp of the umask subject. Thanks guys. I am right in assuming the three groupings correspond to owner - group - others ? So that rw_rw_r__ would give read write access to both user and group but only read to others? -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR