2 Mar
2005
2 Mar
'05
17:03
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